Day 05 — Something you hope to do in your life.

Gosh - there is lots I hope to do in my life, but first and foremost would be LEARN HOW TO STICK TO A DAMN BUDGET!  To actually have money in savings and not be scrambling every time something comes up.  Forget Home Economics or Shop Class in schools - TEACH THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS TO KIDS.  It’s ridiculous.  It should be something that is a class just like Math or Science that you take all throughout school.  What else?  I would like to travel more.  Take actual yearly vacations.  See my kids grow up and succeed in life.  Run a full marathon (this one may not happen).  I would like to continue making great memories with my great group of friends.  I would like to stress less and enjoy more.  The list is long my friends! Very long.

When Kaiden and I were discussing birthday stuff a few weeks ago, she asked me if I was going to make her a special cake like I made for Ashton on his last birthday.  Honestly, I really was not planning on it - I was just going to buy something, but because she mentioned it… now I had to.  So I started searching the internet for interesting birthday cake ideas and found a recipe for a made from scratch, six layer, rainbow cake with made from scratch Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting.  The recipe is here.

What a pain in the butt this thing was to make, but it was worth it for Kaiden.  Plus she wanted to help with it, which we had fun doing together.  I decided to make the layers ahead of time and freeze them, so that on the day of the family/friends get together all I had to worry about was making all the frosting and assembling the thing.  You have to make an insane amount of cake batter, portion it evenly into six bowls, color it with food coloring GEL - not the liquid, because that does not give you vibrant colors.  Then you have to bake each layer about 15 minutes (which takes a while when you only have two round pans) and is why I decided to bake ahead of time!  And YES, I made sure to assemble it in the correct rainbow order - Roy G. Biv bitches (minus the “i”).

The cake and the frosting were good - not too sweet.  The colors turned our AMAZING.  The gel was definitely worth the trip to Michael’s to get.  It was Wilton brand frosting gels, FYI.  Kaiden ended up loving her cake and I am happy about that, but I am afraid I now have a trend going of making homemade birthday cakes, so now what the heck am I going to do for Ashton in March?  Buying a cake from the store is so much easier.

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Day 04 — Something you have to forgive someone for.

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really hard to not carry around grudges.  I really do.  I do not do well with conflict.  I am SUCH an emotional person, that when conflict arises, it seriously just kills me emotionally.  I cannot concentrate, I cannot work, I cannot sleep… it’s horrible.  All I can focus on is the conflict.  So if I am the one that caused it, I try to apologize quickly and fix it.  There are times that I may just sense something is not right and will flat out ask “have I done something to upset you?  If so, I am SO sorry.”  If someone hurts me, if they say sorry and MEAN IT - we’re cool.  PERIOD.  I don’t carry around grudges, I don’t have enough room in my heart for them.  I am frustrated with people, things, etc. in my life, but I don’t carry a grudge.  If you are sorry, then it is done.  Move on.