MarMar Madness

I got a job.  A great job.  A job that I am looking forward to.  However, having a job out of my house is going to mean some serious changes for me and my girls.  My having to get up and out the door means getting up earlier, leaving earlier and leaving 2 precious girls on their own.  I have warned my girls about the inevitable.  Our family dynamic has changed...and along with that comes new experiences, new challenges, new rewards.  Every morning I get up with my kids.  I am a morning person. I sing that bloody song to them.  Kamrin hates it, Mikka smirks at it with her eyes closed tight.  Luci - well...she's a wild card...you never know how she'll react.  I am not a helicopter parent, but I do help them too much.  Of this I am aware of.  But, in my defense, they are only little once and one day I'll be sitting alone in my rocking chair, covered in wrinkles (thanks sun) and will smell of moth balls and will only have my ...

Ok, seriously, the cake thing was wicked.  I loved every moment of it.  I loved meeting some of the most amazing people ever whom I intend on staying in touch with.  I loved learning how to bake properly - you know, with real measuring instead of guessing and tossing it in the bowl.  I hated modeling chocolate...but hey, you can't win everything.  I loved wearing my little white uniform and making it completely dirty every day.  I was the on-going joke with how dirty I got.  I simply couldn't help it...truly.  I loved how we ate lunch together either outside on the bench or upstairs in the lunch room.  I loved making gumpaste flowers but hated the grade I got after thinking I rocked it.  Pulling sugar...yeah, not so much either.  I learned more than I thought I ever could.  I learned a lot about cake decorating...but as you should, I learned a lot about other people and also about myself.  Cake decorating is hard and ex...