Hello girlies! I hope this finds you both doing well and enjoying this beautiful Sunday. I have missed you both so very much here! PLEASE post soon!!! Here, after having slept for 12 hours ( LOL Bad day yesterday followed by Bad Saturday ) I am up having my first cup of coffee and trying to decide if I want to stay home and be lazy today or go hunting for pumpkins and corn stalks to decorate the front porch...Hmmmmm....we will see if I can move a little faster in a little while what the day will hold. This morning I feel like I have been steamrolled! Ugh!
I have to rouse MB up soon...I promised that we would make waffles this morning. Do you both remember the story of closet family? LOL I recently on a whim bought a waffle iron as an ode to "Closet Mama". We have had a good time making waffles and remembering the antics of closet family...LOL...Today's will be left over batter from a caramel apple cake topped with apple pie filling...sound good? I hope so. Yesterday, I made the batter for a dozen cupcakes for the sweetest young man. Last year, I made his and his wife's cupcake tower and groom's cake for their wedding. It is their first anniversary and he wanted to give her pearl stud earrings. He called to ask if I could decorate the other cupcakes with pearls like last year and put the earrings in a cupcake in the center of the group for her to find. I just hope she didn't swallow them!!! It was so sweet and romantic! He said she had wanted the pearls for a long time and he wanted to surprise her with her favorite cupcake. He promised me he wouldn't let her swallow them! LOL I love sweet stories.I hope they celebrate many more sweet anniversaries...Another sweet story is that I did another cupcake tower last weekend for a wedding and the bride told me her Grandmother came up to her during the reception and pointed at it and said, " Carla, that looks like something off of One Life To Live! How glamorous! " LOL...That definitely gave me a chuckle for the day. She said her granny was totally amazed that you could get by with cupcakes for a wedding! LOL Cupcakes seem to be the rave lately...I had had girls from the courthouse come crashing through the door this week like Kramer frantic for them and the looks on their face when they saw pumpkin muffins and caramel apple muffins in the case instead of cupcakes were priceless! Like sheer horror! I was out of containers!!! LOL Last week I did about 200...this week starts off with a bang on Tuesday with 60....Geez! Who would have thought cupcakes would be so sought after?
My Jess came home last weekend to celebrate her birthday. I made her a "Starry Night Cake" and didn't get a picture of it! Van Gough would probably have a duck if he could see his masterpiece copied onto cake..LOL..It was definitely interesting to say the least. We had such a good time together. MB ran her ragged with games and concerts and such, but she was so glad to get to see her little sister play. On Sunday, we went homecoming dress shopping for MB and went to R&R's on the Causeway for lunch! I just love their fried pickles!!!
Dress shopping with MB was tiring to say the least! She finally decided on a knee length one shoulder strap dress that was a champagne color and put purple heels and
jewelry with it. She was beautiful and so grown up looking! Like " off of One Life To Live!" LOL Her boyfriend bought a purple tie to match...LOL...He was so proud to give her a wrist band of roses with purple ribbon..He said, " Mama had to do some fancy footwork to get this baby, Miss K." It was so sweet! When they were leaving for the dance, Dana looked at him and did the Guido thing like " I'm watching you, man." He had her home exactly to the minute on time...LOL. Verdict is still out on the boyfriend, but to his credit, he is trying...let's see, MB and Jess told him he needed to prove to us he wasn't a "neanderthal with no shut up filter"...LOL...So, he is really trying to be good while he is around us...Most boys pretend to be mannerly and good during parent visits and they never get to see the neanderthal come out..LOL...I guess we got to see the neanderthal first and manners second...LOL...but, as with all teenage romances, I am not sure how long it will last, especially since MB keeps mentioning a certain little red haired boy who grew 3 inches over the summer and whose voice had changed from soprano to baritone...lol...Hmmmm....Me and his Mama are getting out goats ready...LOL.
Jess has had a tough week at work and had to call and talk it through. Her first patient passed away this week. He was a CF patient that had been coming to the hospital since he was 6 and turned 18 a few weeks ago. They moved him to the adult hospital and he only lasted six months there. She was so upset. She had gotten to know him really well. Alot of the nurses went to the funeral. She said her charge nurse told her she was too emotional and attached and she needed to stop reacting in that way. Something seems so wrong with that comment. I am sure in time she will come to terms with grief over losing a patient, but come on! This young man was her first patient when she started the job and was her patient many times after and they had formed a friendship. A little different from a normal shift where you care for someone and may never see them again. Some of these kids are in constantly and they do form a bond with them. I am so proud of my daughter that she has a heart for these kids and cries when they cry. I know that she is truly doing what God wants her to do with her life.
Well, I guess I should go now and go get MB out of bed...She had a band competition yesterday and came home late, but the scored 1's, and she was totally happy! So proud of my baby!
I love you both and wish you could be here for breakfast with us!
Have a wonderful day!
Candygirl
