:) Good headline, right? My cousin and I are both into cake decorating. (I made a 3-layer 50th anniversary cake for my grandparents over the holidays this past year). So every time we get together we either make cupcakes or (a newer tradition) noodles. Don't know where the noodles came from but these are the cupcakes we made last weekend.
They were originally penguins from the book Hello, Cupcake! but they ended up only loosely based on them. For starters we had blue and pink penguins so you could tell the boys and girls apart (we learned this trick from the Feature Films for Families movie Scamper the Penguin--one of the greatest movies ever by the way). Then we used fondant instead of dipping the penguins in melted icing. We used heart marshmallows instead of regular round ones. So instead of perfect little penguins, we ended up with things that no one could recognize as them. The only way you could remotely tell that they were penguins was if like the one on the left we didn't put the flippers on. However, as my cousin informed me: She cut the cookies (they were hard and shattered easily) so we WERE using them. :)
Other fun in the Land of the Iowans: We went to a Buccaneer game--the local hockey team. I was good luck! They won. Plus I learned how to ice skate afterwards. They let anyone who wants to borrow skates for free after games and skate for half an hour or 45 minutes. It was fun, but I'm not used to the ground being the slippery part. I'm used to the skates moving (roller skating) not the ground--it really felt like it was moving! It was weird. Saturday we went real skating with wheels and everything! That was fun. We heard the birthday song three times for all the birthday parties that day. :)
More eventually on cake decorating--I really should post pictures. :)
So that was last week's post. I went home to my parents' last Monday and didn't have time to blog.
Blog Today:
My boss is gone from work this week and I am somewhat in charge. Kind of nerve wracking honestly. I am a lifeguard at a local pool and what I really don't want is a chlorine pump to stop working or something. Also we have a new school group in this week so the patrons are adjusting to a new schedule for the next few weeks, too. We are super busy, but that is good. The days go fast. I am actually opening the pool (5:30AM) every day this week. I don't normally open on Mondays but I was needed today so I did.
So yesterday at a good friend's daughter's birthday party, I talked to a dear friend. Her family has a membership at the pool I work at and she was telling me that her daughters (who are very dear to my heart) had off school today. She mentioned they might come see me at work today, then remembered that they had lessons at 4. They probably wouldn't come to the pool twice in a day.
After I got off work at around 10, I was thinking to myself how good it would be to see them. So I called and they weren't busy. I went over and we all had a lovely time. I colored and played Barbies with the girls and me and my friend were able to sit and sip coffee and catch up. It was lovely.
So often we get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday that we forget to take a timeout for life. Yes, there was laundry and housework waiting for me at home--including tile demolition in our first floor bathroom. But you want to know something? It was still there when I got home this afternoon. And I am going into the rest of the week with the recharge that I took today spurring me on.
Life is so busy and too many times we let ourselves burn out or just run the pace that we think we should. Honestly, the times I look back on with the most fondness and the ones that gave me the energy I needed to make it through are the times that I stopped and took some time to hang out and catch up and bounce ideas and thoughts off of a dear friend. Just a thought, but you could try it too.
Oh yes we were using those crummy cookies!
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