I've been absent. It was Eric's birthday September 6 and then we had his birthday party last weekend. For each, I made a giant Star Wars cake with my cousin, who is an awesome cake woman!! It turned out awesome, so I'll share photos soon.
This weekend is my parents 40th wedding anniversary party. We are having a ton of people and we are doing the food ourselves, so it's been a lot of work just getting organized and we haven't even started cooking. I love my mother because she's very anal like me and so I feel good about the onslaught of food prep which will begin tomorrow (seriously, we've made a list of all our food and assigned a serving dish for each one so it's all set out and ready to go. I've even put post it notes in each one so the girls doing the food know).
There is so much going on, but today I had a wonderful day. I spent it with my friend, Bette Lou. She's in town visiting from Madagascar, where she and her husband moved back in January. I miss her terribly. She emailed to see if I had a day to spend hanging out and scrapbooking and I'm so glad we could find time. I even convinced her to let me have a potluck party this evening so a bunch of us could visit.
I truly had the most wonderful day. We scrapbooked (I finished 2 layouts!!) and we reminisced. I remember being 9 months pregnant with Kayla (my first child) and thinking this baby was going to be trapped inside me forever. I was going crazy and so Bette Lou set up a series of adventures for us to go on to keep my mind off my the fact that I was destined to be pregnant forever. When I decorated the nursery, I found a Winnie the Pooh picture that said, "A Grand Adventure is bound to occur" which was perfect.
Anyway, I had the most wonderful day and evening. Tonight, we just sat around and ate and chatted and it was so fun. It made me so incredibly thankful for my friends, but also for this hobby that has allowed me so many opportunities. It's introduced me to so many wonderful friends and taken me in directions I could not have ever imagined. I am so truly thankful.
I'm not the kind of person to get really mushy and sentimental, so I'll stop there. I just thought it was important to make note of feeling thankful and content. And I thought I'd share the cake I made for Bette Lou.
It would have been so easy to say, "I'm too busy." I know I have craft for 15 minutes on my daily TO DO list, but lately, I just haven't had time. I need to make time though since it is so important to have that outlet. And it's important to take the time to be with friends since the other stuff can just about always wait.
