Cupcake Wars

Well, living up to my title, I'm slowing down from a speed of 100 to 50 in a few days.  Tax season is over finally (thank goodness) - even after I tell my regulars that I have a full school schedule with my full time job...six people managed to wait until the last week to bring me their taxes for preparation, what a rush.  This simultaneously ended while planning a bowling fundraiser for my high school son who will be venturing off to Germany this summer with his German class for two weeks.


Hence the happening of the cupcake wars.  As I've mentioned in my last post, I also make decorative cakes along with my sister.  Now let me back up a few months or so...we also did a bowling fundraiser for my same adventurous son for his trip to London, England from an invitation by the Queen to play in the New Year's parade.  Long-story-short...my sister and I made cupcakes of various flavors as a 'thank you' for all those who attended in support of his trip.  So of course, when we decided to do a fundraiser again for his Germany trip, the first question asked by a grand majority of the ones who came the last time, was "will there be cupcakes again?"  So, needlesss to say, how else to show our appreciation but to give thanks with our specialty cupcakes in 9 different flavors. 

The flavors included:

1. Vanilla Cocoa Bean
2. Strawberry Cream
3. Orange Creamsicle
4. Banana Cocoa
5. Caramel Espresso
6. Lemon Burst
7. Red Velvet Cream Cheese
8. Chocolate Coconut
9. Mint Chocolae Chip Fudge

Yes, they were definitely as good as they sound.  Now, the difference is I had to solicit the help of my younger sister, who doesn't really do cakes because my sister who normally does cakes like I do, was taking a final exam.  So, my multi-tasking-super-mom-skills kicked in and I was helping her get the batters in while making 9 various flavored frostings.  After an hour in a half of popping cupcake pans into the double ovens, they were populating faster than I expected.  I paused and then realized we were rapidly approaching 200 cupcakes. Yikes!  I felt like we were on cupcake wars - and realized we would have lost becuase we should have had 1,000 cupcakes by that time.  In actuality we were making good time with just the two of us and the assistance of our two daughters, 10 and 12 yrs old, who manned the dishes and kept cleaning out the bowls and utensils as we switched between 4 mixers all going at the same time.  So we did pretty darn good considering the teams on cupcake wars has 2 bakers and a team of 4 helpers.

You would think there were come cupcakes left over - NOT!  I guess the multiple flavors enticed people to take multiple flavors.  And the bowling fundraiser was a success!  Now I need to recharge my mom-o-meter, for this past weekend (which blended with last weekend's tax preparation) has drained me.

Me at Work!

Jack of All Trades...

I've been known to be called SuperMom.  Although at times I get overwhelmed, doing things I like does not seem like that much of a chore.  So my blog is going to share with you my view from the outside looking in...what I do, like to do, want to do, have to do and then what I SHOULD do all in the form of a story of it's own in no particular order.

I am a wife of 13 years to a wonderful, understanding and supportive husband who watch me stretch myself to the limit, tell me I shouldn't do so much while knowing I won't stop, and then supporting me to the end, even when I've ran myself to the ground, he's there to pamper me and bring me back to my power level of 10 again.

One of my hobbies

My first priority is my kids.  My 12 year old daughter who thinks there was a mistake on her birth certificate ('because it happens' she says), feels she is so much older than her true age.  If I wasn't there to give birth, I would entertain her argument.  She is rapidly growing and maturing in to such a beautiful young lady and I am so proud of her talents with playing the piano and guitar. She is very strong willed, very time selective, and opinionated young lady and I wouldn't exchange her for anything in the world.  I just told my husband to be ready because she is going to give us a run for our money.

Then there is my youngest son who is a 15 year old that is in everything you can sign up for.  Yet, he doesn't realize that when he signs up for something, a majority of the time he has signed me and his father up as well in terms of getting him where he needs to be and of course any associated cost.  But his hard dedication to his education and excelling in everything he does makes it simple for us to go along with it.  I'll touch basis on him more in a later blog - he's a chapter all of his own.

Now my oldest son, who is now 22 years old has just became a truck a driver and feels like he's on top of the world.  He was my biggest challenge, or I better described as my biggest lesson learned year after year.  Thankfully, he didn't turn out all bad and all the lectures I exhausted myself giving while he looked at me like 'any minute she's going to run out of breath', I think has finally paid off.


for more to come...as I want to share with you all how I manage to work a full time job, go to school to obtain my masters, cooking, cleaning, laundry, transporting kids, doing hair, decorating cakes, preparing taxes, putting together fundraisers, and being a wife (which is more of a job than I thought).  All of this is otherwise known as...Life in the Fast Lane! I'm sure I can't be the only one with this job description.

Can I?