Baby Bertha

Food To Feed An Army

Lori carried two more of her square cake pans to the table and began to mix frosting. Her large sheet cake was baking now. It was a confetti cake with vanilla frosting. She thought it would look pretty with pink colored vanilla frosting. She couldn’t resist adding a few flowers on top of the pink frosting.

She took the sheet cake out and frosted it quickly. This one will look pretty, but, everyone will go for that chocolate cake first. She knew from experience. She loved to bake and had a difficult time resisting the urge to make a third cake.

They expected a large group of people to spend the afternoon and evening here. When the doorbell rang, she planned to serve snacks and a punch she had chilled. Kids would drink soda and she’d use paper cups for them. She mentally went over the list of food. Chips and dip, cheese and crackers, pretzels and nachos. She hoped they wouldn’t stuff so much that they didn’t eat the grilled food.

For those strictly healthy-food people she had a ton of veggies and dip. The house would be filled to the brim with both food and guests. Out on the patio the umbrella was up and the table and chair patio set washed clean. There were odd lawn chairs scattered on the patio and some on the grass. There was a redwood picnic table for the kids to sit at.

They would all have a lot of fun. Babies would cry, toddlers would fight over the picnic table and her sister’s new baby would arrive, cuddled in her little graco snugride infant car seat. She hadn’t seen the baby yet. She was only four weeks old. Her name was Ruba and she was said to sleep a lot of the time. She put out plastic toys for the kids.

The badminton net waited further out on the lawn. She checked for the fourth time to see if the ladder to the above-ground pool was secured in the up position. It was, but she’d probably check three more times before all the little kids came.

Her husband Todd was getting the outdoor grill fired up and ready to go. There were dozens of hot dog and brats. Hamburgers too. It was the food everyone expected at an outdoor party. The pickles, olives and hot peppers were chilled and ready to carry out. The various salads were all prepared too.

Lori ran upstairs and showered. She was wearing a sun dress with new sandals for the occasion. Now it was only an hour till the house would fill with people and she was growing excited. Just taking five minutes to straighten her bed quilt and running in to make her daughter’s loft bed, she was ready for the day. She went downstairs and waited for guests to arrive.

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