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10.26.1982

Yes, I did have cake for breakfast :mrgreen:

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At 9:35 am, Katherine Anne was born to Clifford and Barbara Younger at Newton Wellesley Hospital outside of Boston, MA. She weigh 6 lbs 13 oz and was 19″ long.

Fun Fact: On the way to the hospital when my mom was in labor, my parents drove over a rock and got a flat tire! They had to pull over and wait for an ambulance to come continue to journey to the hospital. My dad saved the rock, which is in their garden 🙂

And my mom hilariously reminded me this morning that I didn’t breathe for the first minute or so when I was born:

Remember your first Apgar score was a 0. So your first grade in life was VERY BAD. Very very bad grade

And then it went up to something like an eight.

I don’t know why you got a zero, but I guess if you don’t breathe they can’t give you credit for anything.


I AM 26 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys have no idea how long I have waited to be this age………. Well, actually you do :mrgreen: The husband and I just sat on the couch and watched our DVR box clock turn from 9:34 to 9:35. I teared up!!

I really wanted some oatmeal today, but I thought it would be fun to involve the cake, which was just staring back at me when I came down:

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So I had both! (With the help of Tina, who convinced me cake must be involved when we chatted earlier this morning 🙂 )

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Surrounded by superfoods, this was the healthiest piece of cake ever! My oats were made with banana, raisins, flax and almond butter.

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I also had 1.5 cups of Tiramisu coffee. I have to say, I’m quite full in a bad way right now. Kinda regretting the heavy cake! But I guess today’s the day if any to feel this way at 10am 8)

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10.26 Superstars

Others who share the 10.26 love:

  • Kelly T.
  • Lauren
  • Kim
  • Pat Sajak
  • Hillary Clinton (Fun Fact: I met Hillary on OUR birthday – October 26, 1992 – when she and Bill came to my small town of Hillsborough. I was in 4th grade and my mom checked me out of school for the occasion.)
  • Keith Urban

1982: Fun Facts

My dad sent me a card with Fun Facts From 1982 –

Famous Births

  • Kelly Clarkson
  • Prince William
  • Kirsten Dunst
  • LeAnne Rimes
  • Kath

In The News…

  • Cellular telephones become available to motorists at a cost of $3,000 (!!)
  • The Dow Jones Industrial average tops the 1000 level for the first time (wish that was this year too!)
  • Ronald Regan declares war on drugs (I see not much has changed…)

The Value Of A Dollar

  • Yogurt …… $.89
  • A Dodge Ram truck….. $5,999.00
  • A microwave……$589 (!?!?!)

New To The Market

  • Cabbage Patch dolls become an overnight sensation
  • Nutrasweet hits the market
  • USA Today makes its debut

In Entertainment

  • E.T. Phone home!!
  • CATS opens on broadway
  • EPCOT opens in Disney World
  • The Kath Eats Real Food concept is born

Birthday Plans

We’re not sure what to do today. We wanted to go hiking, but now we’re both feeling lazy and don’t feel like driving 45 minutes to an hour to the park. I do want to do something outdoorsy though, so maybe we’ll just go walking or running somewhere nice in a bit?

My family members sent me a little birthday cash and I told the husband I would LOVE to go to pick out a few new oatmeal bowls!!! Perhaps a few plates too. Maybe we’ll bike there for our activity?

THANK YOU to you all for all the wonderful birthday wishes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s so cool to have people all around the world getting excited for me.

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  1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You sooo deserve a piece of cake on that lovely oatmeal, so I’m glad you did it! I hope you have the happiest of birthdays. You are such an inspirational person. You go Kath! Woohoo girl 😀

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  3. What a cool breakfast! Its your birthday you deserve cake for breakfast 🙂

    I hope you have a great day doing whatever you decide to do.

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  10. Such a fun post with all the little facts about 1982 and your birth! Oh, AND the cake for breakfast!!! Yum!
    Have an awesome day!!! And Happy Golden Birthday! 😀

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  12. HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY!!!! Your oatmeal cake combo was so cute!! And your “26” cake was awsome, too! I hope you have a really wonderful day, Kath. Best wishes! 🙂

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  13. HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY!!!! Your oatmeal cake combo was so cute!! And your “26” cake was awesome, too! I hope you have a really wonderful day, Kath. Best wishes! 🙂

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  18. what an awesome breakfast!!! =P yup, todays the day to have a breakfast like that!

    “You guys have no idea how long I have waited to be this age……” I’m curious, why 26? is it more so than 25, or 27??

    have a wonderful rest of your birthday!!

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  24. Hooray for today being your birthday!!!!
    Hope it’s great and satisfying, like all birthdays should be 😀

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  25. Happy Birthday Kath!!!

    You are too funny waiting for the clock to turn! 😀

    Remember, calories don’t count on your birthday, so you can have cake at every meal!

    Have a good one!!

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  27. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATH!!!!

    I am so happy to have seen you give me a birthday shout out on your blog and I’m very touched that you remembered.
    Enjoy our lovely day and I will too!

    Lauren

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  28. Happy Birthday Kath! I’m glad you decided to enjoy your cake this morning with your oats! What a great splurge for your very special day! 🙂

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  29. I LOVE that you had birthday cake oatmeal on your birthday 🙂 I hope you have a fabulous 26th birthday and that the fun continues throughout the year!

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  30. Happy Birthday Kath!!
    WOW, that cake looks AMAZING!! as somewhat of a cake baker myself, i’ve wanted to try Alton Brown’s recipe for Tres Leche Cake for a while now. How was it??

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  32. Happy Birthday, Kath!

    October birthday’s are the BEST! (Mine was the 24th)

    Have an awesome and RELAXING day!

    xoxo,
    Annie

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  33. Happy Birthday! Mine was yesterday and I too, had oatmeal for breakfast. And this morning I had leftover chocolate covered strawberries.
    Have a great day and celebrate in whatever way makes you feel the most joy!

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  34. happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! love the cake i n the oatmeal – a once a year tradition now maybe!? hehe. have a fun day

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  40. Happy Birthday Kath!!! Your birthday cake looks AMAZING. I hope your husband will do a post on how he made that amazing creation. Enjoy a fabulous year at your lucky age!

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  45. Happy B-Day!
    You’re 26 on the 26th. Very cool.
    I always make my son a b-day number meatloaf for his birthday. It’s his favorite meal. I thought I was the only one who did that!
    I hope you have a great day!

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  47. glad to see that you did have cake with the oatmeal! i’ve been putting chocolate in some of my bowls this week and i can imagine the ganache was awesome!

    loved the birth story 🙂

    hope you both have a fabulous day whatever you decide to do!

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  56. Happy Birthday!

    26 Reasons I love KERF:

    1. Daily Inspiration
    2. Banana oats
    3. Honesty
    4. Love stories shared
    5. Cheery posts
    6. Contests
    7. Delicious recipes
    8. Pretty dishes
    9. Friendly KERF community
    10. Kath always responds to my comments!
    11. Southern charm
    12. Comments from Kath’s mom
    13. Awesome photographs
    14. Kath’s cute clothes
    15. Funny stories of scary indoor critters
    16. Exercise tips and motivation
    17. Kath’s love of cake and ICING!
    18. Ideas on how to be more “green”
    19. No counting calories
    20. Creative post titles
    21. Ideas on how to make veggies more fun
    22. Lara Bar Reviews
    23. Witty play on words
    24. Lots of nut butters
    25. Emphasis on moderation
    26. KATH

    Enjoy your day! I will be 26 next June and plan on celebrating by running my first and probably last marathon, hopefully in Chicago. So I totally get the enthusiasm you have for the number 26!! 🙂

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  59. Happy 26th Birthday! I agree, nothing like leftover cake for brunch!

    (I’m eating my huge $10 Tiramisu bowl right now from last night’s Bucca di Beppo in celebration of my 28th bday today AND your’s!) =0)

    Have an awesome day!

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  60. Happy Birthday Kath! I have to say that when I turned 12 on the 12th (of June) many years ago that it was the best birthday I’ve ever had!

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  61. What an awesome looking cake! I have been eyeing that Alton Brown recipe since it first aired on t.v. but I am too scared to make it. I might eat it all by myself!

    Happy 26th on the 26th!

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  62. Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day today. I like the idea of having cake for breakfast. ;p But I have to ask how your husband made the cake. How did he form it in the shape of 26? In one picture it looks like he used a regular 9×13 pan and had the 2 surrounded by whipped cream? But then the other picture it looked like the cake was on a jelly roll pan. As a fellow baker, I am stumped! Thanks!

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  67. Thanks for all the oatmeal ideas… I seriously check in every time I’m making a bowl! This morning I tried pumpkin-peanut butter oatmeal! YUM! Happy 26th!!

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  70. happy birthday kath 🙂 enjoy your day! it was also my golden year too i turned 19th on august 19th

    i ALWAYS have cake and milkshake for breakfast in my birthday, not healthy BUT hey it’s just every year!

    i’m your #1 mexican fan 🙂 you are really an inspiration for me

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  71. Happy Birthday Kath! I was also born in Newton, MA… although my birth was a planned home delivery. If the plan had been for a hospital delivery, it would have been at Newton Wellesley! How long ago did you move from Boston?

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  73. I promise this is the last story I will tell today.

    When Kath was three and my mom was visiting, Mom and I were eating pieces of cake for breakfast. Kath came into the kitchen and was shocked. “I’m going to tell Daddy you are eating cake for breakfast,” she said.

    My mom answered, “Go ahead, but then we won’t give you any.”

    Kath immediately changed her tune and we served her a small slice too.

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  76. Happy Birthday!!! The cake looks soooooo amazing!! I keeping going back to look at it. Could he bake one for christmas eve?

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  77. Happy Birthday Kath! Congrats on turning 26, it’s been my favorite age so far 😉 I really enjoyed the facts about 1982, same year I was born!

    Have a great day 🙂

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  79. Happy Birthday, Kath!!! Best wishes for a another great & successful year! You are so much fun and I love to read your blog. I hope you are enjoying your day & being spoiled by the husband & friends & family. I really wish I could have a slice of that cake! It looks way too good 🙂

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  82. Haha, that story your mom told is hilarious. Unless it’s not really your mom, in which case it’s creeptastic.

    Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy your day!

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  84. KATH-i love how you involved cake in your oats today. That’s really really awesome….. You are huuuuge inspiration and I hope you enjoy your day–congratulations on the success and i wish you the best for the next year!!!!

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  85. KATH-i love how you involved cake in your oats today. That’s really really awesome….. You are huuuuge inspiration and I hope you enjoy your day–congratulations on the success and i wish you the best for the next year!!!!

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  86. My mom made this cake for me for my b-day this year! It was so amazing. It was so rich (even without the chocolate)!!! She just made it with the real whipped cream and all the milks the recipe calls for! Did the husband use all the milks? It didn’t look like it. Just wondering if he just used the sponge cake recipe and then frosted it. Looks amazing!

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  88. How I made the cake:

    I began the whole procedure by making the ganache so it could cool while I did everything else. It was a standard ganache recipe that I doubled, so it was 2C cream, 18oz chocolate chips, 2T vanilla. Google around for the procedure – very very easy to make.

    As previously mentioned, I used Alton Brown’s Tres Leches recipe (google it). I multiplied the recipe by 2.5x. I poured half the cake batter into a 9×13 pan (prepped with parchment), and poured the other half of the batter between two 9″ round pans (parchment too).

    After baking, I removed the two round cakes to a cooling rack, and after 20 minutes of cooling I freehand cut them into the 26. They were probably about 7.5 inches tall.

    The 9×13 cake stayed in the pan, and I made the milk “glaze” for the cake. I did not multiply this by 2.5 – just used the regular measurements. Even still, I thought the glaze was too much liquid for the cake, so I only poured about .75 of it over the cake. Then I put it in the fridge overnight. I’m glad I cut back on the amount of glaze I used, because even the next day there was still a bit of liquid sloshing around.

    Once the 26 was cut, I began spreading the ganache over it until thickly covered. There was still tons of ganache left over. Since I don’t have any fancy cake decorating platform, I just put them on the underside of a jelly roll pan. Once iced, I put this in the fridge overnight so it would harden and make it easier to transport.

    The next day, about 30 mins before the party started, I made the whipped cream that’s part of the tres leches recipe. Again, I didn’t adjust the portions for this. I whipped it up real quick, plopped the 26 on top and you’re done! Kath suggested I sprinkle a tiny amount of coconut over the 26, just for appearance.

    Overall it was pretty easy, and my only complaint was that the cake wasn’t quite as fluffy as I would like. I think this is my fault, however, for two reasons: 1) our baking powder is really old and probably not good and 2) I may have overmixed the batter after adding the flour. I’m leaning towards the first reason because I really didn’t mix the batter that much after adding flour, and it was cake flour in the first place so there’s less chance for gluten anyway. The only thing I can’t understand is how the heck you’re supposed to get all the glaze to soak in – especially since the 9×13 cake I made was 1.25x what the recipe called for. Maybe if it had been fluffier it wouldn’t have been a problem.

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  89. Happy Birthday! I completely endorse having cake for breakfast once and a while… after all, what better way to start the day than with frosting!

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  92. Thanks husband. I agree the milk glaze should be a little less. But I guess that’s the idea behind the tres leches – to be really soaked in that mix.

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  93. Kaaaath happy birthday!! I did the same ‘cake for breakfast’ thing the morning after my sister’s wedding when I ended up with a whole layer of her chocolate sheet cake–it went well with EVERYTHING, from yogurt to fruit to..just chunks of it on its own! I hope you’re having a great day, and I LOVE your mom’s stories, so cute!

    Thanks for the daily inspiration, you keep me on track!
    Amy

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  97. ~~~~~Happy 26th Birthday Kath!~~~~~
    Thank you for putting so much into this blog on a daily basis. You have truly been the inspiration for me to try MANY new meal ideas and see food in a new light. Thank you x 1000000!

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  98. hahaha! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATH! Your cake oats sure made me chuckle! I was sure that you had prepared oats in practically EVERY WAY possible…but you’ve done it again. I bet those were tasty!!!

    I hope you have an amazing day!

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  99. ~*~ Happy Birthday Kath *~

    26 yay!!!!!! Hope your day was amazing with lots of delicious goodies:-) Thanks again for all the time you put into your blog to keep people like myself motivated. you deserve a great day!

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  100. Annie + Lizzie,
    Happy birthday to you both too!!!!

    Emily ,
    Your “26 Reasons” made my day!!! Thank you so much 🙂

    Lauren ,
    We moved when was 1.5. So cool you were nearby!

    mom ,
    Hilarious!!

    larbs ,
    Thanks!! I’m sure he’d be delighted to make one for you, me, and mom to consume in 10 minutes.

    Kath

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  101. Happy GOLDEN Birthday Kath!! Your 25th year seems hard to top, but I hope you have an even bigger 26th! Could a marathon be in your future…?

    Birthday breakfasts require cake. 🙂
    and I love your mom’s stories/commentary.
    (Mrs. Kath’s mom– you have a great narrative “voice”!!)

    Just wondering, where were you planning on going hiking??

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  103. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

    Congrats to a birthday well spent! That cake looks phenomenal- what a great hubby you have!

    Fantastic shopping finds too! Hooray!

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