i made three irish whiskey cakes this year

st patricks day tradition that no one did last year as we were all still adjusting to the stroke

trying to get things back on track this year

my grandmothers recipe

my mother taught me how to bake this st patricks day goodie

the only thing she ever taught me to cook

she would come to my house the weekend before the 17th every year

and we would have a 48 hour baking marathon

one year we made 12 in two days

this year i decided that i would make them on my own

i wonder as i baked them if she could smell it downstairs

if she remembered the laughs we had making them

i wondered if she misses things like this

i cried and cried

my son asked me what i was making i told him irish whiskey cake

he said oh knockout cake

what is asked

he said knockout cake that is what grandma called it before she got handicapped he informed me

she said if i ate it i would get knocked out

wow that was three years ago

he was five the things children remember