Piece of Cake

John and I have been hard at work baking cakes this week. Around Emelie's 3rd birthday, he started thinking a lot about cake decorating. He wanted to make her a big Tangled cake for the party. He and my sister in law worked so hard on that thing, only to have it start melting the day of the party. We ended up doing the cake before the food, just in time for the tower to start toppling over. It was funny- well in hind sight!

Isn't life just kind of like that sometimes? We place so much work into things and they don't always turn out the way we want them to. I think one of the biggest things we as human beings need to learn, is flexibility. The ability to bounce back. The ability to make a decision to keep going forward.

In going forward, we've kind of started a side project to help bring in a little extra income. It's no secret that we sacrifice a lot of things so I can stay home with Emelie. And it's also no secret that John doesn't want to become a "lifetimer" at his current job (although we are happy he has a job!!!) We hope that this could take off. It's been a really long time since I've allowed myself to dream big dreams. Probably because being a mother is the job I've always wanted- so I feel complete in that. But this new endeavor is something were doing together. I'm excited about it. We did two big orders this weekend (one large cake and 30 cupcakes) plus I made 48 cupcakes for our family Christmas party. I'm excited to see where this goes! It's good to dream again:)