Hi Hon, will you please stop at the farm on your way home from work, and get me two small boxes of strawberries?  The biggest, sweetest, red strawberries, grown in the hot houses on their farm. 

The ingredients needed to make a birthday cake for a dear lady, we are visiting this evening.

The recipe is so easy, quick, moist, and delicious.  You may want to try it yourself.  Unlimited amount of choices to use in putting this cake together.  I used the white cake mix, strawberry ice cream, and 3 eggs.  The recipe is from "chowhound.chow.com/topics"

For my icing choice, I mixed dry some dry strawberry jello with a container of Cool Whip.

One recipe made these cupcakes and ...

...this cake for my friend.  It is a fun shaped cake pan that I have had for a few years.  I added a glass bowl of the strawberries on the plate with the cake.

The few strawberries that were left over, were put in a bowl for my husband.  He said they tasted better than candy.  The cake and cupcakes will be stored in the refrigerator, until ready to be served.  What a fun, quick way to put dessert together.

Lilies-of-the-Valley always remind me of my wonderful Mother.  Everywhere she lives, she plants a garden of these flowers.  I cut some for my powder room.  They smell so good, and remind me of how blessed I am to have my mother in my life.  I think of so many of you in blogland, that do not have that privilege this weekend.  I hurt for my friend today, who just lost her Mother a few weeks ago.  How painful this weekend must be for her.

For all of you friends who visit my blog, I want to extend a wish for you to have a Happy Mother's Day! 

I close with this quote from a lady I will always admire, Ruth Bell Graham;  "As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible, and trust God with the impossible."