However cliche it may be, I am very much enjoying being back in my hometown with my parents and sisters and kid brother for Easter weekend. Puck stayed home. I am so glad it is spring break finally. I need a break from my students. I brought Kate with me to play with my parents' dogs and we're just having a lovely time. I made a great birthday cake for my sisters, whose birthdays were last month. It is an almond cream cheese pound cake with chocolate mousse filling frosted with chocolate fudge frosting. I decorated it with tiny rosette borders in the fudge and then did french lace on top in baby blue and put tiny baby blue french dots between the rosettes. It came out delicious AND beautiful! I think the Easter bunny might even manage to bring me a prize or two overnight... nothing like going home again!