Mexican Rice

We celebrated our daughter’s birthday past week.I pinch myself.She is growing up too fast.As you may have known by this time,I usually make full-on favorite meal of the birthday person.However this time i goofed up.I got wrapped in other details. I asked Ms A what would she like to take for her class? Cookies,cakes,brownies ?Her answer was cupcakes.I asked her if she would like the goodie bags for her friends?Of course,yes !To involve her in her favorite day ,we went shopping and i let her choose the items which goes in the goodies bag under my guidance of course :-)If it was on her ,it would have been bracelets , wands , nail polishes and princess stickers  for  everyone with a hole in my pocket.But we didn’t. For  home birthday cake,her choice of flavor was Vanilla,no doubt there.Her color of icing was pink.I can’t show you the picture of  my cake,so that the memory of beautifully decorated,perfectly iced cake stays untarnished.Mine was anything but that except it tasted good. Among all this,i forgot...

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