A Quick Note

For anyone who is interested... with Farmer's Market closing in on us, we are busy getting ready. For anyone who may be interested, we have re-worked our Crumbs website (I like this one much better) and the new site is at: www.cloviscrumbs.com

Crumbs Update

An update for everyone... the wedding planner loved our cakes and the taste testing. She plans on using us for her fondant wedding cakes. Now, I have to decide if I can handle the pressure. Yikes!

A Kasey Moment

Kasey, my sister, wrote in her blog about a "Kathryn moment" she had involving Rod Stewart, living forever, and particularly loud and oblivious neighbors.

Well, I had a full on "Kasey moment" the other day. I walked into the back bedroom and the above clip was on TV just as I came in.

This link is for you Kasey... and to everyone else, despite it being an inside joke, you may enjoy it as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdhiRwuzis8

My Heart Took a Little Stroll Today

This is a picture of Finn peacefully sleeping and unaware of just how much fear he caused my poor heart minutes prior.  He was doing the climbing and exploring thing that he does so well, and had somehow managed to get hold of a small hershey kiss wrapper... which he proceeded to eat, and hey why not?  Its shiny and smells like chocolate.  Being in the same room you would think I would have caught this, but I was oblivious until he started choking.  It was a relatively brief incident and had resolved not long after I reached his side to remove the offending object (although you wouldn't think something so small would have caused him to choke for as long as he did)... but it took a year or two off of my life. 

I can't help but wonder how Moms do this.  It reminded me of a quote I found a few years ago:

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. 

-Elizabeth Stone

It is something I struggle with everyday.  There is so much joy in loving someone so much, and consequently there is always an element of fear because loving someone so much makes you vulnerable to any harm or sadness that befalls them.  How mothers do it without a strong faith to rely on is totally and completely beyond me.

This is what my weekend looks like

So, today we meet with a wedding planner who wants to see a cake dummy (a decorated styrofoam cake) and also do some cake testing.  So I decorated this cake and hope that it is a design that they are interested in.  If it goes well, we could be providing most of the wedding cakes for this event planner... which would be great.

People ask what I'm up to, and this is literally what I have been up to all weekend.  My life has been consumed (this particular cake is a pretty time consuming one).  Wish us luck! 
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Travis for Treasurer!

I thought this was the best promotion for someone running for office. Well done Travis. And good luck with the campaign!

Check out the campaign video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SwkruWBaOI

Nothing happened... Trust me.

So, Tim & Irene's youngest daughter, Meriel, toddled in with a mysterious white powder substance all over her... but the most entertaining part was that she assumed that if she pretended that there wasn't white all over her, then we wouldn't realize it either (which means we wouldn't sleuth out what she had been up to).  Unfortunately for her, this mess did not go by unnoticed.  Its hard to ignore a whole room of the house being doused in powder; carpet, furniture, walls, everywhere.  Needless to say, Mitchell is now without baby powder and Irene is still trying to decide if she is on speaking terms with her fun but mischievous daughter.

Obviously, this picture is pre-punishment.

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