What a weekend! After a particularly disappointing work week, I decided to make some changes in my life that I can control – my house. So, this weekend has been the beginning of the “Evie Project,” as we are calling it here at the Childs’s residence, or in other words we are moving Evalyn out of the nursery and into a big girl room. Because Evalyn is turning two in . . . twenty-two days, and we only get weekends to really have enough time to do any significant damage, we realized that we needed to begin the “Evie Project” this extended President’s Day weekend. Now, it would seem that moving our child from one room in the house to the room directly next to her would not need such hyperbolic terms as “Project” and “damage,” but because our house just fits in the bracket of “charming” in its smallness, changing one room means rearranging three.
Evalyn is getting a Little Mermaid themed room, and the new baby (a boy! Liam Pearse) is going to take over Evie’s current nursery, which actually means no new furniture to buy for the nursery. However, you better believe that I already have a registry for new bedspreads and bumpers and curtains and everything that I can to make it more “boy-like”. So, what basically was an idea of “let’s turn the computer room into Evie’s big girl room” turned into, “let’s get everything down from the attic that is baby stuff and figure out what we need for Liam’s Nursery, move all of the computer room desk, and bookshelves, and crap down stairs, make Evie’s playroom smaller from downstairs and add some upstairs to her new big girl room ,and oh yeah- actually get all of my old furniture from the attic down for Evie’s room. Which then turned into, “Laura you have all your old stuffed animals, and Barbies, and toys, and apparently over fifty TY Beanie Babies in the attic- can we get rid of them all too?” Well you can imagine how the week has been going from there- somehow, I felt it to be an imperative to clean out the hall closest amongst all of this rearranging - and even now as I am typing I am looking at the computer desk (that is now currently downstairs) and am thinking “ the desk and computer need a good cleaning too.”
Picture of our newest addition!
Liam Pearse Childs
Pictures of our damage during "Project Evie"( I realize I look like I have a belly here...but I am 5 months prego! No judge!)
So it is shocking to me that I was able to make a cake- a Valentines White Chocolate Heart Cake nonetheless, amongst all of this chaos. This cake called for the standard, sugar, flour baking powder, eggs, butter, and vanilla, but also required white chocolate shavings and chocolate chips. To make things even more interesting, the cake is in the shape of a heart- and I do not own a heart shaped pan, so I make a round cake and then cut it to a heart – I think it turned out well and the dog sure enjoyed the scraps.
Here is my cake and then the book's picture.
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