Diary of a stay at home mom: And it isn't over yet.......

This has been one of those weeks.

It always seems like when I have my life scheduled to simplify matters, someone/something always throws a wrench in there to wreck it. Now that I am starting to bake again, my first cake being a wedding and groom's cake this weekend, I've been gearing up for the past few weeks. Making plans, writing supply lists, coordinating who and what goes where. And now I'm down to the last few days. Everything is going fine so far, but not without a little stress. My son had his Spring Band Concert last night. My daughter had to miss her gymnastics class, that I will still have to pay for. I found out that our finances are a little worse off than I thought they were, and I already knew they were bad. My husband is stressed for that reason, plus he has alot going on at work. My kids bring me a spread sheet of all of their lunchroom purchases and payments for this last school year, and I realized that we had come up short on paying the cafeteria. So hoping that they wouldn't cash the checks, just yet, hoping they would wait until Thursday ........nope. They cashed them yesterday, which costed us $50 in bank fees. Ugh! Any other time, they'd hung on to it. And because of our lack of finances at this moment, I'm not able to go to my son's Band Banquet. It really saddens me that I had to tell him that the reason I am not able to go is because I didn't have the money to pay.

I'm just feeling like I'm under attack this week. The stress level is high here. I've been placing my focus on the wedding cakes. I want it to be beautiful, and it will be. I think the devil just knew that I would be tight this week, and he decided to add a few things to my schedule. In addition to what I mentioned above. My oldest daughter has had two field trips so far this week and field day is tomorrow. My son has an out of state field trip on Saturday. My middle daughter has learned to hop out of her baby crib. I knew she was almost to that point, and she decided to do it early. I was waiting until after the wedding cakes to start toddler bed training her. Oh, she's growing to fast. Her latest saying is "Moooo Cow". But it's so funny how she say it. It's almost like moo-caow, like and Indian says "How". lol. The moo part sounds high and the cow part is low.

Sorry, to unload all of my problems tonight. I guess I just needed to get it off of me, some form of stress relief. So, in order to brighten things up, here's some pics of my inspiration for the Wedding cake and Grooms cake.

The Bride has chosen a Winter/Christmas theme. I know what your thinking. Christmas in May? But if anyone can pull it off, she can. She's been planning and making decorations. And I think that on this hot Saturday, that the Winter/Christmas theme will be refreshing.

The groom loves tropical reef fish. And so his cake is in the theme of an aquarium. They provided me with the names of his favorite creatures. I've got them made already, but I'm waiting to take pictures later. The fish are all made out of modeling chocolate, and the reef/rock will be made of rice crispy treats and pulled sugar.