I loved baking my cinnamon loaf earlier in the week. This week brought another perfect opportunity to bake. My nieces are on half term and looking for things to do to keep busy everyday, why not bake??
They came to my house with packed lunches in tow, ready for a full day of baking. The girls are creative an very indecisive which meant absolute carnage in the kitchen, they loved it! There was pink cake, purple cake, blue cake, buttercream and flour everywhere. Jake could argue it was just like a normal ‘baking day’ in my house but it felt crazy.
While the cakes were cooling down we went to the shop to buy some flowers and put them Tobias’ Garden. The innocence and honesty of a 5 year old amazes me. The curiosity and amount of questions regarding Tobias and his garden kept oozing out of her. She had so many unanswered questions, her head was busy with thoughts about where he had gone, why he was gone and what he liked to do. You could almost see her eyes ticking as she began to process all the answers.
The baking that followed our visit to the garden continued to be filled Tobias. Questions that tugged at my heartstrings, questions that filled my eyes with tears, questions that I never expected and questions that made me laugh. I didn’t mind any of them. I loved how a 5 year old can ask all these questions and talk about Tobias for hours and yet sometimes adults can’t think of one thing to say. Be more like a 5 year old!
My whole afternoon was spent making memories together; baking cakes, visiting Tobias’ garden, walking the dogs, but my most special memory will be the way Tobias was brought into our home all afternoon.
Puzzle Pieces of my Heart 