Readying for a new date + one last party list

With love and thanks to you all for being here — and for all good things to come for #teamcake

Hello! Hello!

Never mind that I wrote 2024 on the first pages of a couple of notebooks. Or that I filled a notebook — actually, I used two 2024 notebooks to develop the recipes for my new book. (I’ll have some book news for you soon.) That I did many things, went many places, had many adventures and spent time doing what I love most — being with my family, baking, cooking, sharing meals and writing to you every week. Still, the turn of the page snuck up on me. I can’t gather my thoughts fast enough to say farewell to ’24. To welcome ’25. To grip that time has passed. That it felt fleeting.

I may have told you this anecdote, it’s one I think of often. My mother-in-law once told me that she used to feel sorry for her mother because she imagined that as her mother got older, time must have slowed down for her, must have weighed on her. But, she said, now that she was older — I don’t remember how old she was when she talked to me about this, maybe 65, maybe 70 — she felt that time sped up,…