Scouting the Father-Son cake bake trail
Father and sons pondered the Cub Scout Father-Son Cake Bake ideas again this weekend. “What’s that icing called again? The kind that we had on our wedding cake,” my husband asked. He was, of course, thinking of fondant, a smooth sugary confection that you can roll and mold right onto your cake. Well, that’s quite […]
Father-Son Cake Bake gets underway
The chatter around the breakfast table today centered on the upcoming Cub Scouts Father-Son Cake Bake. To be celebrated with our Pack March 26, this event brings Scouts together with Dad or Grandpa or Uncle Mario to bake a cake–no enhancement of store-bought cakes allowed. This is a fun Cub baking project that generates great ideas in […]
Pumpkin carving . . . heard this through the pumpkin vine
The cookery is ramping it up to carve pumpkins this week. If you need a little practice before you carve your own, refresh your design skills. Put this pumpkin in your patch: http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf Halloween hats off to everyone’s Aunt Sally for sharing the link and a Cub Scout salute to Cub Pack 81 for hosting […]
Ready, Set, Scout
My youngest son, a new Cub Scout, is working on the Bobcat Trail. This week, our Cubs are reviewing a unit on food and healthy choices. With a school holiday yesterday, the boys packed a picnic lunch and we ate outdoors on a blanket. The picnic basket (otherwise known as a small insulated cooler) included fruit, vegetables, grains, dairy, protein–and […]
Best-kept secret to a happy marriage?
This morning I pulled duties as the cookery prep cook while my Cub Scout earned one more credit for planning, preparing and cleaning up breakfast. On the menu: waffles. Out of the freezer? Hardly. He mixed up the batter and made them in the family waffle maker. My husband and I received a waffle maker […]