I'm spending too much time on my mommy boards and facebook. Sorry for being out of touch. I guess I should twitter more? People who twitter, let me know and I'll try and log in over there some more.
Valentine's day week-My baby brother came up to visit us for the weekend. We had a great visit and went to Golden Dragon for V-day lunch. Simple and sweet.
Week after V-day-nothing big. Made a cake for Chris's family get together. Sorta random, but I wanted to play with fondant before I had to make Emma's big cake.
Last week of Feb-We all got horribly sick. Every last one of us, from me and Chris, at the same time and alternating, to Emma to finally the baby. Emma missed school for the first time ever. Being sick and having to care for two kids is NOT fun at all.
First week of March-Snow! OMG it was amazing! Pics of the kids in the snow are here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2504372&id=4922916&l=26f8b8d1ff It's so much easier for me to put pics up through FB. Sorry! We had fun even though it was nerve wracking. I was really scared that we'd lose power and I had no clue what we'd do about it. I was mostly worried about the kids getting too cold and stuff. I hope everyone was able to stay safe and mostly warm through it.
Second week of March-Emma's spring break. It would have been better if Emma hadn't been home sick for two days at the end of Feb and 2 more days for the snow days. She only went to school the Friday before snow (on a field trip to the 5 pts fire station)and the last three days of the snow week. We did extra trips to the library and got ready for Momocon. Also, shortly after the snow, the washing machine broke. They were supposed to fix it at the end of spring break but took down our number wrong and skipped over us.
Third week of March-This was a busy week. I had to go to the laundromat to do laundry due to the machine being broken and the repair guy missing us (bad number). Ugh. I started making Emma's cake on Wed of that week for her friend birthday party on Saturday. The machine was fixed on Thurs morning. I was bsrely able to get all the stuff done that day! Emma's party was awesome. Pics of the cake making process are here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2513112&id=4922916&l=74929e4d42 The party was a lot of fun. Her friends Aeri, Clare and Rebekah were able to make it, as well as Cindy's son Ephrum. There were even two baby friends (younger siblings) for Alex-Lyla and Baily (both 9 month old girls :) ). The theme was pirates and princesses.
This week has been recovering from the party and preparing for the family party. That went pretty well. The house is really nice looking downstairs. Now I just need to work upstairs! Crappy stuff from this week though-on Tuesday my cell phone charm (of Fruits Basket) broke. I'd just bought it at Momocon and now I think I should try to contact the dealer and see what's up. I know they're supposed to last longer than 10 days and it's not like I was abusing it or anything! Also, the washing machine broke again. That happened tonight after the party was over. Chris was running a load of diapers and when he went to do the second wash, the machine started smoking and stopped working. The first time the machine broke, it filled up with water and simply stopped. I had just started diapers and had to pull the wet poopy diapers out and haul them to the laundromat (thank God for long latex rubber gloves!). So earlier tonight I went and finished washing the diapers by hand. Since I had soapy water, I went ahead and hand washed a poopy diaper just to get it out of the way. We have a 90 day guarantee on the washing machine repair. It really seems like something with the repair went wrong. If that's what caused the machine to fuck up, I think we'll see if we can't just get store credit for the $200 we paid to try and fix the stupid machine. If the "repair" made it worse then I want my money back.
I think that's about all that's been going on. I've been baking like a mad woman for all the birthdays and cakes. The random cake I made required one box of devil's food cake mix. The cake I made for my father-in-law required one yellow cake mix. It was a beer cake with chocolate frosting-yum! The alcohol baked out so it was safe for all to enjoy. Then for Emma's giant rainbow castle cake, I used two boxes of white cake mix. Then the first try stuck to the pan (issues with ensuring enough time to fully bake the cake). So I made it again (another two boxes of white cake mix). Finally, I used a box of funfetti cake mix for the top tier-yes the cake had two tiers! Then a few days later I used a box of yellow mix to make cupcakes for Emma's class. The dog got some of them and I had to make more with another box of cake mix. Finally, I made a cake for the family birthday party today, using up another box of yellow cake mix. I've probably also used about half a gallon of milk and maybe 2 dozen eggs? I used the cake doctor and cupcake doctor for all the cakes instead of following what the box said to do.