Little Girls Made of Sugar and Spice

Yesterday I was treated to a pleasant surprise…so pleasant that the sweet taste of it is still lingering in my mouth! Little Zoe-anne all of 9, with the able assistance of her sister Gia Isabella, waiting in the wings to step into her 9th year next week .......worked their magic in the kitchen and came up with a whopper!
And this, when modern gals need a road map to locate the kitchen in their own house and cannot tell the difference between jam and jelly....
When kids have begun to believe that an inch of war paint on their faces can enhance the beauty much more than the warm glow of innocence and sincerity.....
When tiny tots are growing up with one and just one aspiration- to be the Miss Universes or Miss Worlds like the Sens and the Rais who have missed their way to Mother Theresa's ashram......
When little girls long to be seen and appreciated on the small or silver screen, hanging from the ceiling in dance shows or prancing around as child brides in some old melodrama tearjerkers.......
The whopper that came out of the warm oven in the kitchen was the best chocolate cake I ever seen or eaten in my life…..I have yet to taste a tastier and softer cake with the syrupy chocolate icing oozing out of the layers.....because the magical cake that came out of the kitchen yesterday was sweetened with Zoe's tender love and softened with Gia's zest for life!
As any fond Nan would tell you, I prefer to overlook the contribution of the mother and the maid... however small it was because I AM proud to be their grandmother….!