pink glitter and silver smarties

Maybe it's just today, but I am totally over birthday parties. Which is a shame because Nell's is on Saturday and I still have to decorate, shop, cook etc before then. I visited the cake decorating shop yesterday to buy a heart shaped cake tin. I saw the price of $79.95 and cried aloud in shock and dropped the tin. It made an alarming clatter on the floor and I think the owner got the message. Holy Crap Batman! For that price it would want to make the whole bloody cake!

I left armed only with silver chocolate buds and a newfound enthusiasm for round cakes.

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There are ways in which I knew I would miss Soy while he's away. I knew, for instance, that I would forget the put the garbage bins out and have to eject myself from bed at 6.47am to wrangle the bins in bare feet and my dressing gown.

I didn't forsee, however, that I would forget to remind the children to go to the toilet before bed and be woken two nights in a row with wet beds (one each, consecutive nights). D'oh!

Then this morning, after being so rudely ejected from bed and very grumpy about the interrupted sleep (it took more than 90 minutes to get back to sleep) I couldn't get the bloody computer to work skype properly when I tried to call Soy in Tokyo to wish him Happy Birthday.

Then I fogot that the heater service guy was coming this morning and answered the door dripping wet in a towel. Then I forgot that Zac's vacation care class was going on excursion and we almost missed the bus (actually, it's lucky I did forget or I would have been frantic with the heater guy for him to finish so we could leave. As it was I was blissfully unaware and relaxed.) I left Zac looking a little forlorn with cries of "just in time!" ringing in my ears.

So Soy does more than just make our house run, he's also my reminder system. Which is odd because I feel like I am always reminding him to do things.I guess that's the curse of a busy family - we are all reminding each other constantly.

That reminds me, I must include fluffy white bread on my shopping list to make fairy bread on Saturday morning. Nothing worse than multigrain fairy bread - that just screams a party with no fun.

Comments

[Belinda]

Happy B'day to Nell - hope the party was a great success :)

[pamela]

Happy Birthday for Sunday for the pink glitter and silver lame/pink feathers/ all things glitter girl.- And the little heart shaped cakes and sound rather tres cool! Good luck with the whole party preparation, survival through the day thing.

[lauredhel]

One square tin and one round one, and you can make your own heart cake. Enjoy.

[Nat]

Try using chocolate spread to make your fairy bread (we call it freckle bread) Sweet Williams make a dairy/nut/egg free chocolate spread in case you have allergy kids coming!
Also you can get silicon baking tins in a love heart shape, maybe not as big, but definately cheaper (you can also get heart shaped muffin tins (silicon) in case you want to make little hearts)
Good luck
Nat