to ever make red velvet cake again. sheeeeze louise!!! who invented that? it's a chocolate cake with a gallon of red dye #10 in it. i don't care that they didn't have sugar during the civil war and had to use beets. i have sugar in my pantry. i do not like beets. i also do not like red batter all over my daughter and my kitchen (did i mention that the beaters got stuck in the mixer and i couldn't get them out and eventually yanked them out as pate walked by and got red batter all in her hair?).
it's been a rough one. i actually just sprayed a paper towel with fantastik and absentmindedly wiped my own face and mouth with it. so much cleaning, so much red dye---i got distracted.
so, i hope truth has a happy 7th birthday with red velvet cupcakes as his team's soccer snack because it's the last one with red velvet cupcakes, that's forsure.
That's so funny! I was just thinking after Samantha's party that a bakery cake would probably save money and would definitely save time over buying a special pan and doing it myself each year. When they're old enough to appreciate a homemade one, then I'd gladly do it. I'll probably keep making them anyway...
I'm betting you didn't think that was funny! ha! Find a bakery that sells red velvet cupcakes? there has to be one, right? Sounds like a tough day. Sorry about that!
sheesh--did anyone do the bible reading today for their kids' class? it's about sarai insisting that abraham have relations with hagar (even though that is not mentioned at all in the lesson book text). by some stroke of luck, pate wanted to read today which meant i have to help her read. that meant i was reading ahead several words and quickly realized what we were reading and skipped us ahead to saturday's reading.
if truth had been reading, i'm certain i would have heard, "so have sexual relations with my slave girl..." and then, "mom, what's sexual relations and why does sarai want abram to have them with a slave girl?"
not sure how to explain all the details of that to my 4 and 6 year old and very glad i didn't have to!
they are giving away neopets as the happy meal toys. if you get one and don't want it, please send it our way. truth just loves them. i have no idea what exactly they are (neither does he), but i'm guessing there is some tv show/movie tie in or something. meanwhile, pate is now obsessed with build a bear and counting down the days to her birthday party in may....
been meaning to post this for a while....
when pate and were at target a few weeks ago getting gear for our destin trip, pate was carefully calculating how many days we would be gone. after much thought, she finally asked, "mommy, are we missing any churches?" i told her we were going to church at the vacation place, and she was good with that, although would have preferred to come back home for church, she mentioned. so, think she would have noticed if we had skipped services while on vacation? duh.
on the way to the airport on the way home, i asked truth what he liked best about our vacation. his response: "playing in those hard waves and going to that little church. i really liked that church." think he would have noticed if we had skipped services while on vacation? duh.
and a last note, since the ft. walton church is in a vacation spot, they have smartly set out lots of cds with sermons on them, so that people can listen to them as they make the long drive home from vacation. truth was fascinated with that and insisted that we pick up a cd (even though we flew), and he wanted to listen to it in the rental car everytime we got in. not sure who preacher john morris is, but my son loves him!
Wow! That's really great! Kids are very smart and very perceptive! It's amazing that parents of teens think they can get away with missing on vacation, etc and it won't affect their kids spiritually...
I don't think she actually ingested much - she thought it tasted pretty bad - but I could see some of the granules on her molars when I was cleaning her mouth out. We'd been dealing with a leak under the sink and the detergent was accidentally left out, but I would have thought she was old enough to know better.
