And here is my very first try at a bundt (is that spelled right?!) cake. WOW!!! I'm so excited! I've had the pan for years, but have always been too scared to use it. I remember the bundt cakes my Mom used to make when I was a kid. The top half would stay in the pan and she'd try to piece it together on top of the rest and it was just a big crumbly mess. I was going to have the same trouble with mine (it was not coming out of that pan!), so I decided to freeze it. Worked like a charm! Got it just stiff enough to hold together while I pried it out of there. ;-) You can see minor wounds, but nothing too serious. Nothing that can hold a candle to the scars on my Mom's poor cakes, anyway. Right, Mom??? :-)
The cake tastes good, too. Chiffon Spice Cake, I think is it's name. Yum!
Let's see... News, news, news. I can't seem to think of any. The most consuming thing in my life right now is trying to figure out what to do with a mean, selfish child that is developing severe character flaws and is going to grow up lonely and miserable because of it. Lectures don't do much at this age and the spankings don't seem to be getting through. I've tried everything I can think of, which is probably a good thing. When you're out of options and feeling desperate you begin to pray hard--like you should have been praying all along! I'm realizing that I can't make my kids be good and nice and kind and thoughtful... There are some things that happen way deep down in the heart where only God can reach. I've done all I know to do and more, so now I'm begging God to do what I can't do!
Guess what?! Mom had weeds for dinner tonight!!! Is that cool, or what?! It wouldn't have been cool if I would've been there and had to eat them, but from 1500 miles away, it's great! "Poke," I think they said. Sister Bishop found it out in Mom's yard and went out to pick some and cooked it up. Weird. Makes me think of Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies! Ha!
I'm trying to think of something grand that the kids have been up to lately. We don't have any bees or slugs around like their Colorado cousins (thank goodness!), but they've been having fun with the worms in the back yard. And Emilee, Katie loves the worms as much as the boys do. You'd never suspect Katie and Abbie of being interested in such gross things (especially Abbie!!!), but they seem to get a real bang out of it. A few weeks ago all three of my kids were sneaking around the house with strange, pieced together "costumes" of some sort, fly swatters, and magnifying glasses. I couldn't figure out what they were up to until I heard one of them say, "Look! I see some Mexican Red-Kneed Tarantula tracks--come on! This way!!!" Spider hunting, of course.
The most exciting part of the day today was when a package arrived from Grandma Vicki. Katie was thrilled to discover that Grandma had, indeed, made her an Easter dress and she just squeeled and jumped and clapped and hugged it and on and on. Mom had also sent some Easter candy for everybody and some little toys for the boys--balsam wood airplanes and those little plastic guys with a parachute that you toss up into the air. The boys were thrilled and ran outside immediately to try them out. Within 10 minutes both planes had been smashed to smithereens and one parachuter was stuck on the roof. But it sure was fun while it lasted!
Well, I'd best get off of here and try to get the house put together a little bit. It always helps the day go better when you can wake up to a clean house. Doesn't happen as often as I'd like for it to, but I always try! :-)
G'night!
~Bec~
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