Cake 81 Apricot and Syrup Cake

Making a cake this morning was supposed to be the easiest and least hectic thing that The Children have done this week. Big things happened for me on Tuesday, as I was asked to be the department chair at C. Milton Wright. Being a department chair is something that I have wanted for the past three years; I would be great at this job. Although I love Edgewood High School with all of me, I was ready to take the job and on Wednesday I went to the school to accept. Well a friend of mine, and my sister, always tells me to "look at the signs," and on my drive to CMW, "Call Me Maybe" came on the radio - which was the song that myself and a few other teachers parodied in a video for the students' last day of school. So, between that sign, and the want to stay home for my complete maternity leave I chose to stay at Edgewood -- I just could not give up this time with Liam.

So I guess this decision put the mothering instinct in full gear because I have been crazy with cleaning and organizing and trying to sell some of the stuff in the house to make money for two possible vacations next year. Since we cannot go on vacation this year because Liam is too new and money is tight - we decided to plan for next year. A group of Social Studies teachers at EHS want to go to the Outer Banks next year and we would also like to go to Florida with my parents -- so we started a vacation jar and I started cleaning out the attic to see what we could sell. Apparently there are a ton of groups on facebook for Harford County residents to sell and swap stuff- so I joined a couple of them and in 24 hours I made 100.00 selling some old items that we have had up in the attic for years. Good stuff!

All week Evalyn has been super pleasant to be around, so we have done trips to the library, the park, Panera, and Tasti-d-Lite all for Evalyn. She has been to "Mrs. Headdy's" twice this week to for Daycare, where she went to her first movie Puss and Boots ! Apparently she did excellently. So I figured let's finish Evalyn's week with something calm, a cake. And the moment the words came out of my mouth, "Evie you have been such a good girl this week! Are you ready to make a cake?" I have regretted them! In the past four hours Evie has been to time-out four times, for hitting me with her toy phone, taking a toy hammer and smashing it on my laptop, throwing the bowl of flour on the ground, spilling water and throwing her milk on the floor, taking her "potty chart" of the wall and eating (yes eating) the stickers off of it, and currently as I type this Ted his telling her to stop taking all of the dishes out of the dishwasher. YIKES! Well after six perfectly good days I think we forgot that she was a two-year old, and not a perfect child :)

Anyway, here is the cake that FINALLY got made:

Here is the book's cake:

Hopefully next week will be six days of awesomeness with Evie and only one day of crazy Evalyn like we have today!