Hello my Fluffy Unicorns!
As some of you may know, my sister is having a baby! Yesterday was her shower, which I co-planned with my wonderful sister-in-law, Cindy. The theme was "She's about to pop". So everything had to "pop". We had "Pop"corn, Cake "Pop"s, "Pop-able" meatballs, Capri "Pop"s, and Grape "Pop"s to eat. And Cindy made the most beautiful decorations.
To get to the point, I had three jobs: 1. Show up 2. Buy diapers for our Conversational Diapers game 3. Make the Cake Pops.
Simple right?
Wrong.
I borrowed a Cake Pop maker from my dear friend, and asked another friend (who hadn't made Cake Pops before, like me) to come and help me make them. We started making them at 9:30 in the morning. We made the cake batter from scratch, and made all the balls to begin with. Then, following the directions to the letter, we put them in the freezer. While they were in the freezer, the directions said to make the chocolate coating. I have made chocolate candy from the day I was born, I know how to melt chocolate. But, according to the recipe it said to add butter. I have never added butter to the mix. Ever. However, since i have never made Cake Pops before, I felt that I should follow the directions.
I ruined three bags of chocolate.
When I finally got the chocolate to work, I was almost out of chocolate and had to break up some of my emergency chocolate bars to save the day.
In the end, it took my friend and I eleven hours to make 95 cake pops.
Expectations:
Reality:
So in the end, we called them No Mores because we are never making them again. If anyone wants some Cake Pops they can ask someone else, my kitchen's closed.
On the flipside, they did taste very good. I got several compliments on them, so they were worth it. But I still won't make them anymore.
God Bless,
~Nina
Hello my Fluffy Unicorns!!
So my summer has been going good. Extremely busy, hence the few posts. SORRY!
I am writing this blog post to kind of vent some of my feelings. My mother's only sister, my Aunt Ann, has been diagnosed with Breast, Lymph, and Bone cancer. It's stage four, which is the highest, I believe. But I hope I'm wrong.
I am not ready to loose my Aunt. Not even close. True, she lives in Vermont. Which is quite a few hundred miles from here. So I rarely see her as it is. She doesn't call, or even contact anyone in the family unless she's coming up for a holiday (which is rare). However, when she does come, or contact someone, she's always the center of attention.
My Aunt Ann got married a few years ago. And the weird thing is, no one was invited to the wedding. Weird right? I was very put out by the whole thing. I went to her house once, and I didn't see any wedding photo's. What, did she go to Vegas or somewhere? I've also wondered quite a few times what her wedding dress looked like. For all I know she could have worn a quilted turquoise and gold marshmallow ball gown, complete with a hot pink feathered poof hat! Obviously she didn't wear that, but I would just like to know.
Aunt Ann quilts a lot. Her quilts have won first place in dozens of contests. This year she made everyone in the family a quilted tree skirt for the Christmas Tree. They're gorgeous! She made my sister's matching quilts for their beds, and from the day that they arrived in the mail, I have wanted one of her quilts. Two years ago she came over to my house and told me that she had something for me. Now I had never voiced to anyone that I wanted one of her quilts, ever. She had made me the prettiest, most me quilt I have ever found. It's purple, green, and gold. She designed it herself, and it one first place in a quilt show. I am so blessed that I could get it!! My dream literally came true! And now, if she leaves us forever, I have something that I can remember her by forever.
I don't want her to die, I want her to live. She's always lived her life to the fullest. Whenever I've seen her, she's been laughing. It's a loud, bright, cherry, exploding kind of laugh. She always has a fun sarcastic comment about everything. All in all, she's just a fun lady and I can't even imagine life without her, even though she isn't a part of my life very much.
If you all could please pray for my Aunt Ann. She isn't the strongest in her faith, and she could use all the prayers she can get at this point. She's got a long hard road, and even though we can't be there with her all the time, she can at least know that she has a support base here in Michigan.
God Bless,
~Nina
