Cake headquarters sounds like a good thing. Who doesn't love cake, and wherever cake is "headquartered" has to be equally awesome, right?
The answer is, not so much. I will literally go CRAZY if Gia keeps baking as much as she has been. I know it's a good activity, I know she's bored, but seriously, ANOTHER cake? I can't deal. She makes a huge mess, which she diligently tries to clean up, but let's face it, no 12 year old is going to clean up the way I'd want it cleaned up. She tries super hard, but literally ever time there is something wonky going on. Like today's cake, she only noticed half-way thru that she didn't actually have enough eggs because this cake called for 8 eggs. Yes, you heard right, EIGHT! I can't keep up with the flour, sugar, butter and eggs demand. It's impossible. So then she had to "half" the recipes, but since the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients had all been assembled already, she had to then measure out equal portions and the whole thing was chaos. Just so you can visualize, she's making a sprinkle, 5 layer cake. So 5 little 6 inch round pans, loads and loads of sprinkles, and more cake then anyone can realistically eat.
I'm really trying to channel my gratitude here, and stop complaining....but aaaaahhhhhhhh, it's going to send me over the edge. All I do is clean the kitchen, buy groceries, and oh yeah, cook real food (i.e. anything without sugar) that most of them complain about. When you can just fill up on sprinkle cake, why bother eating real food? I have more time, but not more patience. When she asks me, "what do they mean by 4 eggs and 4 egg yokes?" I want to snap, because not only does it seem self explanatory, I am just tired of answering baking questions (there are SO many). How's that for being a bad mommy? In case you are wondering, YES, I did do yoga today, and YES, I do seem strung a little tight despite's that fact...I see it too.
Other than that bit of complaining, I AM excited for Friday. Why you ask? Because, Friday is just suppose to be more special (quarantine or no quarantine), and even thought the schedule isn't changing all that much on the weekends, at least there are a few things I'm excited about. One of them is that my yoga studio is doing a live class on Saturday night AND on Sunday morning. The Saturday night class (Saturday Night Soul) is a musician playing a cello, and a teacher named Tony who has the most meditative and relaxing voice ever. Sunday is my favorite guru teacher Alex that I rave about all the time. He's amazing and is doing his Soul Shakin' class. The classes are free, so I'm going to post the link here: YoYo Yogi Studio I know Sunday is Easter and the class is at 10:30 a.m. so it might be tricky for a lot of us, but trust me when I say, his classes are inspiring, so if you can swing it, fit it in.
Meanwhile back at Melange :-), we are doing a "fun-ness" Friday section, because funness isn't a word, it made us laugh, and we thought it would be well,....drumroll please.....FUN!! So check out the section, there are some fantastic styles at 50% off that you can't resist: Friday Funness Section
Have a happy Friday, we made it thru another week of quarantine, and hopefully some of you are still drinking water, AND writing in your gratitude journal. Any little bit is a win as far as I'm concerned!!
Signed, ME {lv}
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