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Oct. 31, 2007
Just enjoying something funny...
Posted in Simple Living
I have been up to my eyeballs in stuff this week... no play on the fact that it is the day for eyeballs and gore and such, btw... I really have been crazy busy! LOL Got a take-home test yesterday that is due next Tuesday and a major nutrition test on Friday so I have been sending the computer with Dan so I won't be tempted to be online. I have also been baking my little fingers to the bone lately, too. I will share all of that later but for now I am just laughing my socks off at this... oh, and HAPPY REFORMATION DAY!!!!!!!
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Nov. 2, 2007 - WHITE LIE CAKE!!
Posted by Itsme6301
Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist
Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa, but forgot to do
it until the last minute.
She remembered the morning of the bake sale & after
rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake
mix & quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing,
& helping her son pack for Scout camp.
When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had
dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. She thought, "Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake."
This cake was important to Alice because she did so
want to fit in at her new church & in her new
community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked
around the house for something to build up the center
of the cake.
Alice found it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet
paper. She plunked it in & covered it with icing. Not
only did the finished product look beautiful, it
looked perfect.
Before she left the house to drop the cake by the
church & head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda
& gave her some money & specific instructions to be at
the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30& to buy the
cake & bring it home.
When Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the
attractive, perfect cake had already been sold. She
grabbed her cell phone & called her mom.
Alice was horrified - she was beside herself. Everyone
would know! What would they think? She would be
ostracized, talked about, & ridiculed! All night,
Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing
fingers at her & talking about her behind her back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not
to think about the cake & would attend the fancy
luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a fellow church
member & try to have a good time.
Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a
snob who more than once had looked down her nose at
Alice because she was a single parent & not from the
founding families of Tuscaloosa. But, having already
RSVP'd, she couldn't think of a believable excuse to
stay home.
The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper
crust old South &, to Alice's horror, the cake in
question was presented for dessert! Alice felt the
blood drain from her body when she saw the cake!
She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all
about it, But before she could get to her feet, the
Mayor's wife said, "what a beautiful cake!"
Alice, still stunned, sat back in her chair when she
heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member)
say, "Thank you, I baked it myself."
Alice smiled and thought to herself, "God is good."
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