MOTHER'S DAY

Now that we've had nearly a week to process what went down last Saturday . . . . I can write about it.

We had been planning our first try at this bakery thing for nearly a month. We took a class on cake pops. We planned our menu. Wrote down our grocery list. Planned it all out.

Oh boy. You know the saying. "The best laid plans . . . . "

Our plan was to deliver the cake pops on Saturday, the day before Mother's Day. I wanted to make all the cakes on Thursday so they could cool and we could start dipping the cake pops on Friday, finish up Saturday morning and be all ready to go Saturday afternoon.

Yeah. Enter the first obstacle.

After I got off work and picked up the kids that Thursday, we went to the store and got all the things we needed. Went home, fixed dinner, cleaned up and got started. We put together the vanilla bean cake. I doubled the recipe so we would have enough cake to make as many as we needed. But, being the brilliantly scatterbrained person I am, didn't buy double of some of the ingredients.

So back to the store I went.

I came home and we started putting the strawberry cake together.

And we ran out of sugar. (It's ok to laugh, I'm cracking up at myself over here!)

By that time, I refused to go back to the store on principle. And it was late, so we called it a night.

So on Friday night, we went to the store and bought more sugar. And I stocked up on everything else I thought I might run out of.

We got home and I found something else I needed to get more of. Of course. So BACK to the store I went. Again.

I came home and a good friend of ours asked if he could take us to dinner. Definitely couldn't say no to that, so we went to dinner then came home and finished the lemon cake. FINALLY all the cakes were baked. But it was WAY too late to start dipping the pops.

So Saturday morning came. I woke up early to start making the frosting. And ran out of confectioner's sugar.

Are we sensing a pattern here? Trust me. It continues.

So I gave up and just bought canned frosting. Shhhh! That's our secret. (The caramel pops had homemade frosting in them at least! haha!)

Back at home dipping was going really well! We finished the caramel pops. And ran out of the white chocolate. I bought a TON, so running out was a surprise to me! At this point, I was just hanging my head with a mix of humor and frustration, edging on manic stress. (I kid. Mostly.) Off we went to get more melting chocolate.

At this point, it was noon. And we still had only finished dipping the caramel pops. So we BOOKED it dipping the strawberry and lemon pops. And we still didn't finish them all until 5:00.

And we drove around delivering them from Ogden to Orem until 10:00. At some point we decided to call it a day. So on Sunday I went out and delivered the rest.

WHEW!

Definitely a learning experience! And I wouldn't trade that day for the world. I had an amazing time with my kids, Alayna is living her dream, we learned so much about teamwork, the kids learned about hard work and earning money. What more could a parent ask for?