A working mom’s crazy adventures

So tomorrow is Joey’s  big 15th bday and this year he requested that I make peppermint white chocolate red velvet cupcakes  like they have at our local cupcakery.  Well much to my surprise I got the frosting part PERFECT and the cake was good, but not quite good enough.

I shall keep working on it to make it perfect!

Just thought I would share a little something :O) being that I haven’t posted in quite some time.

Hope everyone is well.

My sweet lil babe is turning one in less than a month! I can hardly stand it. I can not believe how quickly time has flown and how quickly she has grown!

She is just amazing! Full of personality, very inquisitive and just a happy go lucky gal! She can stand on her own and even stand up as if she is about to walk, but isn’t quite there. And in all honesty, I’m glad… take your time sweet gal take your time! Mommy wants to enjoy your itty bittiness for just a bit longer!

So today, my aunt and I took the kids to a farm in Petaluma. It was a great time had by all. Check out all the photo’s (Sorry some good some not, didn’t feel like picking an choosing LOL). Anyway, back to the farm. It is a great pumpkin patch with a hay maze, sunflower maze, hay ride, cow milking, strawberry picking good ole time! So if you have a chance check them out!

So I thought I would take moment and share a few new baking type things I like.

To start off with we have these super cool and sheik aprons from the Hip Hostess!

I really want one, for me and the girls!.

This website Tartelette. And these websites Pioneer Woman, Bakerella.

This cake pan!

I think I’m going to make this cake for Keira’s 1st bday! And I love her site, can you believe she is only 18? Wow!

So I took Bella to see the Miley Cyrus concert last week. It was a great show, but not sure what I was thinking. We had too much planed for one day. School, walk-athon then the concert and to top it all off it was a HOT day! Ugh.

We had a ton of fun, but as you can tell from the picture below we were exhausted. Both of us had been up since at least 6am.

BEDTIME STORIES WITH DAD!!!

Oh how I have missed you, yet I have nothing to say. No inspiring words, no deep thoughts to display.  Just a lackluster life, yet full of amazing memories!

Sometimes, I think I should rename you  “ode to my father”, as it seems that only when I am missing him so, do I really have anything interesting to write.

Oh sure, I have wonderful times with my children and they are absolutely amazing, but really… I mean.. come on that is only interesting to me and those who hold my children near and dear to them. Right?  Sure Joey was artful dodger in Oliver and Bella started kindergarten and is my big girl and sweet Keira is a crawling maniac ready walk at any given moment, just as soon as she realizes how confident she can be.  But does the rest of the world really want to hear all that?

Is it wrong of me to want to wake my children in the middle of the night when I have my “second wind” and am full of energy to do something fun, like  midnight tea parties, or star gaze or share with them stories like I did with my dad? Ah, who am I kidding, my kids like to sleep I might lose an arm. But maybe, just maybe I might wake them up one of these nights to do just that.

I loved staying up late and talking to my dad when I was in my 20’s it was finally a time in my life that we were able to communicate and heal some of the brokeness of our relationship when he was so strung out on drugs in my teen years.

Music and math always connected my father and I. We both had a fondness for The Cure and this song in particular was one of our favs. Boy’s don’t cry, Friday I’m in Love, Love song to name a few. But it didn’t end there the list goes on and on. My dad was hip to current music and stayed up with the latest and greatest bands and what not and then there are the “guitar gods” that we would listen to Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and so on.  He would tell me his stories of how he used to play with this band or that band. And then he would be so excited to tell me about a dear friend of his, that he used to play with and how amazing he was and how he loved playing with him and how he knew that his buddy would end up being AMAZING.   And sure enough he did!

I was and am very thankful that after my father passed away his friend contacted me, and shared some of his memories of my father with me and shared the following pics.

He described them as “This is a Copperhead gig (with I think Santana and Country Joe and the Fish) in Golden Gate Park in 1973 at the band shell
across from the De Young Museum.”  How cool is that?  My dad, playing in Golden Gate Park three years before I was born! AMAZING!
Now, if I could only obtain the pictures that a dear dear family member took from his house after his passing.  I could pass on the stories my dad told me to my children…….. ughhh