The cream cake is SOOOO good! I love our Birthday tradition. For the past decade I tended to always incorporate shrimp cocktail as an appetizer and Dad would pick them up fresh from Costco. Dad would have a few and Mom and I would take care of the rest of them! This year, I don't think I can do that without her as she used to enjoy it as much as I did. Next year Mom, I will try, I promise.
About this time of year Mom would say "Start thinking about what you want for your birthday so your Dad get pick up stuff for it when he goes grocery shopping". I can hear her plain as day.
So with that being said; this year Daddy, "Beef and Dumplings (a family favorite and these are soft dumplings folks; delicious!) and we can have Eastman's Bakery do the work on a pie, hmmm will have to think which one to get!"