Burnt Cake!

Well, I just had my burnt cake moment, it is flat cake instead but we really messed up a cake recipe last night and it will have to be re-done today, except that I am out of sugar and eggs now, so there will be a trip to the store involved.  PT always makes his own cakes and this time he chose a rather involved and new Martha Stewart Boston Cream Pie recipe.  We started it at 9pm after being out for the twins birthday party, and there were cranky over tired kids all around us.  I was trying to supervise/help him while shuffling them off to bed, and we managed to miss a step.

I burn dinner on a semi-regular basis, cooking and multi-tasking are just not a good idea, I think it is really time to gate off the kitchen.

I will say that to reduce stress I chose a party at a party place and it was wonderfully easy.  I had to let go of my perfectionism about hospitality as there were some tacky aspects but the kids had a super awesome time and I think even the adults who stuck around had fun.  With that in mind, I am calm, cool and collected, annoyed but not in tears about this cake thing, which is huge progress.

4 celebrations for three birthdays in five days…birthday week, so much fun it just might do us in…