Mountain of laundry

Okay, I'm a total slacker. I have been so lazy the past week and a mountain of laundry had built up. Ugh. I don't ever mind putting the laundry in the washer then in the dryer. I'll even take it out of the dryer and put it into the basket, but I can't stand to put the clothes away. Matt's going to be gone until Fri. morning and we're running out of clothes, so I'm having to do laundry all the way through. Did I mention how I HATE putting clothes away??? It's mostly hanging clothes up. I just can't stay focused long enough to do it.

Since I have so much laundry to do, I think I'm going to make my own laundry soap. I found it on the Duggars' site and I'm totally excited. It makes 10 gallons of detergent for like 2-3 bucks. That will last at least a year. We're talking major savings here. I'm really excited!!! I guess I don't hate laundry as much as I thought if I can get excited about detergent.

Okay, gotta get laundry going. I hear the dryer buzzer. I'm going to be making cannolis tomorrow or Wednesday, so stay tuned. Until later!!

I have followers!!

WooooHoooo!!! I don't have to write to no one!!! I have 3 followers!! Thank you all. This means so much to me. LOL

The cake wreck story continues. Okay, so I delivered it to the party place. They were then going to take it to Larry's Pizza. I really thought it would make it. I had supported it as much as I could, but it didn't make it. I'm really heartbroken. I just wanted Rylie to be able to blow out her candles and cut her cake in front of all her friends. I'm really more upset than I probably should be. The cake was SUPER CUTE and perfect for Rylie and she couldn't even enjoy it. I'm just sad. There's nothing else I could have done that I know of. I'm going to do some more research to see how to better support and stabilize the cake. I don't want this to happen anymore. Well, until next time!

Cake Wreck...seriously.

Okay, well, as you know I had a cake order due today. It was a 2 tiered cake, so I thought I would go ahead and start on it on Sunday. I got all the cake baked and all the icing made and colored.

That's six cakes. I was doing great!!! And on top of everything else going so well, Nana and Papa (my parents) were going to take the kids for the week. I was going to be able to do this cake in peace and quiet and no little fingers being tempted by freshly smoothed icing. Ahhhhh.. This was going to be great.

The next day, I started putting the cakes together and doing a quick crumb coat. ( The kids would be here until 4pm when Matt took them to Harrison to meet my mom.)Here's the bottom tier. It looks bad now, but just wait...it gets better. At least for a little bit.

So, I do the crumb coat on the bottom tier and then cut out the circle in the top of the tier so the top tier can set in the space that is level. I put the top tier on and then do an all-over icing and wait for the icing to crust. I decide to pack the kids' clothes for the week so the icing would have plenty of time to crust. This is what I came back to...

There was a HUGE crack in my bottom tier!!!!! There was another crack in another place that was smaller. WHAT THE HECK???!!!! I was not going to panic. I was NOT going to PANIC! I thought of all the time that I had already put into it and I had never done zebra print before, so I didn't know how long that would take. It was a little stressful. I was just going to clean up the kitchen and start all over, so I washed cake pans, wiped off counters, set out my butter for icing and went to check all the ingredients for the cakes. I had no sour cream. Sour cream is a major part to my cakes. It makes them super moist and yummy. I was still in PJ's and I decided to just wait until the kids left to go get my supplies. I re-made all the cakes and icing and gave a lot of the cake wreck to neighbors. I was up until midnight waiting for the cakes to cool then realized that my icing had been in the fridge and was unspreadable. I just gave in and went to bed.

The next morning I was ready to go. I got all the cakes put together and went to cover my 6in cake board with contact paper and couldn't find any. No biggie. i had woken up earlier than I thought I would and so I just ran to Fred's in Greenbrier to pick some up then ran by the hardware store to get some wire and pruning shears. Both of which were for the cake. I got home and put it all together.

Here was the moment of truth. Could I make a zebra print on the cake with fondant stripes??

Not too shabby, I thought. The icing didn't smooth very well because the humidity was crazy today, but I couldn't really help it. Here are a few pics of the final product. Riley is the birthday girl and is a super sweetie. I love doing cakes for these people. Seriously, I love my customers!!

Rylie with her cake.

So, all in all, I think it turned out well. Of course, things could always be better, but I think Rylie loved it, so that's all that matters. Well, until next time. See ya!

Cake order

Okay everyone!!! Oh I forgot that no one even reads this blog...oh well. I got a cake order from Xaiden's APN (advance practice nurse). She ordered from me pretty regularly, so I'm glad that I'm back and can do cakes for her again. She's super great and her kids are too. Her daughter's birthday is this Tuesday and since it's spring break here, they're actually having the party on Tuesday. That's great!! She's having a diva party, so I'm doing a topsy turvy, hot pink cake with zebra stripes on one tier and black circles/dots on the other tier. I'm hopefully also going to have curly wire with pink balls on them coming out of the cake.

I saw bakerella's blog and totally love it. I love all the pics and she's just soooo talented. Well, I thought that I needed a camera to be able to take good pics with. All I have is a point and shoot camera. I found a camera that I wanted. I was so excited, but how could I talk Matt into buying it for me??? I thought of all kinds of ways to butter him up (if you know what I mean), but as soon as he figured out that I wanted something, the deal was off. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to make due with my little point and shoot. Hopefully I'll remember to take some pics while I'm making the cake and all the components. I'm so excited!! Until next time.

Onions

As some of you know, we bought a house last month and it sits on a acre. We love it and I'm so excited that we now have a garden. Well, recently planted 2 rows of onion bulbs and I had a ton of bulbs left over. After I planted them I just put them on the shelf beside the front door. Well, today while I was watching Ellen (I love Ellen) Xaiden was playing with something in the area. Not until I saw small white things flying through the air in every direction did I realize what he was paying with. Before I could get to all the onion bulbs, Tater, our English Bulldog, had eaten about half of them. Ugh...onions and dogs don't mix. About 30 minutes later...blah. I'm not the biggest fan of dog puke!!! Oh well, I guess I could put it in our compost pile, but I'm not gonna. It would just weird me out knowing that there was throw up in there. Well, I think Tater will spend the evening in a bathroom in case we need to contain more ickiness.

Xaiden and I are going to the jeromey Deibler from FFH concert at church tonight. I hope a lot of people show up. Well, until later.

Lazytown

Oh my gosh!! I just realized that I have been so caught up with Rhea Lana, homegroup, wee-worshipers and blogging that I have done NO house work this week while Matt has been at work. He comes home tomorrow morning and I HAVE TO get this house cleaned. Xaiden is taking a nap and what am I doing???? I'm blogging!!!!! This is craziness.

Okay, so I finally dropped off all the clothes for Rhea Lana's Consignment thing today. I drove all the way into town (12 mi. or so) and realized I forgot the crib bedding that was my "big ticket" item. Are you freakin kidding me??? I can't believe I'm so stinkin scatter-brained. OKay, I can believe it. Some days I'm just an idiot. Whatever. SO, I dropped Xaiden off at the babysitter's for an hour, took what I did bring into the store to drop off. I picked up Xaiden, got food at Popeye's, rushed back out to the house (12mi.) picked up bedding and went back to town (12mi). Pretty much rush, rush, rush.

AND...while Xaiden and I were eating Popeye's chicken nuggets (because it was the cheapest combo meal on the menu) I realized that the nuggets were more spicy than I anticipated. Xaiden too, b/c he downed his juice and was begging for more drink. Here we are 10 min from the house with our mouths on fire. I'm trying my hardest to go faster, but there's this "blue hair" in front of me going the speed limit. How dare she. Doesn't she know that you can go 10 miles over on HWY 25??!!! There are NEVER cops on that road!! Anyway, all my Coke is gone and all Xaiden's juice...it was not a very good drive home. Once we got there I realized that I had juice boxes in the back of the van. I tortured my kid for nothing. I felt like a horrible mom. I soon got over it, though.

I think I'll keep a pack of juice boxes in the back of my van from now on just to be on the safe side. Well, I'm off to clean. Hopefully I won't be as lazy today as I have been the entire week.

Totally new at this

Okay, so here I am...totally new at this blogging stuff. A very good friend of mine suggested that I start a blog. I'm not really sure why she thought I should do this, but once I thought about it I thought, "What's the harm?".
So, I'm a stay-at-home mom. I have 2 wonderful boys that are the light of my life. My husband isn't too bad either. He's super supportive and a wonderful father.

Okay, so the point of this blog is to just tell about my crazy days.

Where to start? The way my day starts depends on how the night ends. Arrin, my oldest, is at Nana and Papa's house until Sunday, so it's just me and Xaiden (ZAYDEN) for a while. Last night was nuts and I don't even want to get into it, so...long story short, Xaiden didn't go to sleep until 10:30pm. That's crazy!!! He did sleep until 8:30 this morning, so it wasn't too bad.

My little boy got his hair cut today. Ugh...I can't believe it. This isn't the first haircut, though. I just can't believe that my little boy is growing up so fast. He did such a great job. He sat there so big. The only thing is that when the barber took his cape off, it went all over me and Xaiden. A lot of good the cape did. Oh well...at least he doesn't look like Shaggy anymore.

Rhea Lana's Consignment is going on. I'm consigning and I put coupons in 1000 goodie bags to be given out to the 1st 1000 customers. I'm hoping they will bring in some business. Well, I have lots more to do today like make 8 dozen chocolate chip cookies. MeLinda, I'll remember you.