Af'ernoon folks
Just a whistle stop as is DS1s birthday tomorrow and have a million and one things I should be doing, but have just sat down for the first time all day (other than feeding dd that is).
Sorry to hear you are poorly Tree hope you're better soon. (Flapjacks are good, oats are good for poorly tummies! )
Finally managed to order DS1s bike last night, nowhere had one to fit him and we were starting to panic, but found one in Halfords at the last minute and can collect it tomorrow evening. Its a black BMX with skull and crossbones on so he is happy.
Have to make his cake this afternoon, he is an absolute chess addict (often beats DH who is a bit as he taught him how to play) so I've bought some cheap plastic chess pieces and am going to do a chess board cake. I've bought a cake decoration sparkler in the shape of a 7 to go on top but feel a bit lazy as I usually do cakes that are much more complicated/impressive.
DS2 has his birthday Saturday after next and he wants a chocolate robot cake! I don't usually mind as I love baking and I always wanted to do celebration cakes for a living (so far the DSs have had a lion complete with shaggy mane, an Easter bunny, an alphabet cake, a retro rocket, a pingu cake, thomas the tank complete with two troublesome trucks filled with chocolate buttons, a triple decker chocolate fudge cake covered in smarties, a lemon shaped lemon drizzle cake, a rainbow cake with rainbow icing and there were more but I can't seem to remember them all!) but I'm just so tired at the moment it seems like extra hard work.
I'm looking forward to doing cakes for DD in the future though, I loved doing cakes for my little sister and did a good line in fairy castles, princesses in ballgowns, horses, my little ponies, four poster beds and even a three tier royal iced cake with a swathe of pink icing roses from top to bottom - at last I get to use pink icing again!
I feel a bit better about it now, after listing all those cakes I've reminded myself how much I enjoy cake decorating. Just remembered some of the cakes I've done for other people as well, including a dungeons and dragons castle with moat for DH's brother, Badjelly the Witch cake for my older sister, ticky time bomb for DH complete with indoor firework for fuse , huge green and purple fire breathing dragon for my older sisters exH, a vw camper for DH and a couple of wedding cakes. The list goes on and yet I don't seem to do many cakes these days as my kitchen isn't really set up for it.
Sorry ignore me rambling on and reminiscing.