The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, when four of the six grand ones were here, we tried our hand at making a checkerboard cake. We had no reason to believe it would turn out at all – before we put icing on it, we christened it The Dr. Seuss Cake. It was crazy looking. But after caulking it together with icing – and it took a batch of homemade icing and TWO cans of store bought frosting, it was quite the hit when we took it to the Smith Family Christmas party on Saturday 
