Tatum, our eldest Grandchild, turned 21 on August 21st.
She had the night before out with her friends and a lunch on Sunday with family and family friends.
Here is Tatum, ready to go out on Saturday night.
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We arrived in Melbourne on Friday and were ready, willing and able to do whatever was necessary to help.
On Saturday afternoon, we took Indy, seven, shopping and after about an hour in the Body Shop, he finally made his choices. He had about $50 to spend and wanted to get as much as he could for his money. The shop assistants fawned over him!! They called him by name and fell over each other to bring products to his attention. His major purchase was a container of 5 eye shadows, which he liked because they were in a wave shape. By the time he gave them to Tatum the next day, they had become "5 perfumes that you can also put on your eyes."
We spent Saturday evening and Sunday morning until 2.30am with Rachel. She has made me laugh since she was a tiny child and this long stint of cooking was no exception. She has a 'can do' attitude to everything, (which is helped along by experience.) The heart shaped cake was a challenge but she decided that it would be the size of 3 normal cakes and went for that. Disaster soon came when she tried to use her 21 year old electric hand beaters to beat the vast amount of mixture. First there was heat and then smoke and finally they gave up. Here we were with a lumpy mountain of dough for the white chocolate cake ------ HELP PLEASE STEVE. He mixed by hand until his arm muscles were quivering.
With the cake in the oven for the next 2 hours or so, we turned our attention to other goodies, one of which was the famous "cake pop". Not difficult to make but fiddly and time consuming, we laughed our way through a batch of what someone called "diabetes on a stick."
Rachel had chosen a shoe for the cake decoration as Tatum is a 'Shoe Queen.' Oh boy!!! She had already made the sole, modelled on a real shoe, so we worked on strapping over the toe, a bow and the heel. It was such fun, even though we were so tired that we got our words mixed up. The stiletto heel was proving quite difficult, so I called for Steve. He measured carefully and used his excellent eye to get the right angle and shape.
Making the bow was probably the best part. It came together like a real bow. We packed the loops with Glad Wrap to keep them open.
We fell into bed at 2.30am, half an hour before Tatum arrived home from her night out. What I didn't know is that Rachel set her alarm and was up again by 5am and working on salads. What a champion!
When Talitha, Maddy and Josh arrived, the amount of food increased hugely. They had been busy bees! Talitha and Rachel have always worked well together for catering but now we have Madeleine as well, who is a very capable cook.
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