Kids, Cake, and Soap

Hannah likes to ask deep questions right before she goes to bed.  I'm not sure whether she really wants to know, or is just trying to prolong her bedtime routine.  Recently she asked me what Lord was.  Pretty deep question for a not-even-4-year old.  Also, I'm not sure what it is about her, but apparently she has terrible luck with being in the nursery and the toys there.  Recently she went down a slide outside, and the slide detached from the apparatus and fell to the ground with her on it.  Yesterday, we picked her up and she had a HUGE knot on her forehead and she said she hit it on the rocking chair.  We found out what really happened, and she climbed up to rock in the chair, and it FELL APART!  Poor girl.  She's got Lundemo genes.

So I baked some more bread for the guy at Dusty's work, and he wanted a cake too.  I gave him the prices for my cakes, but he didn't want to pay that, so he tried to haggle.  I mean, a 6 inch cake with 2-2in thick layers for $12.  Not bad.  I mean, this is a from scratch cake with from scratch icing.  If you want a cheapo cake, go to Walmart.  Anyway, I told Dusty that I wanted to try this new recipe I found, and I'd make him a one layer 6 inch cake covered in icing for free, since I would make one for us as well.  (I would not have made us a cake if he had not wanted a cake.)  Well, Dusty told him that there was coffee in the chocolate cake (which he requested with chocolate icing).  Of course, the guy comes back and said it was good, but he could taste the coffee (BULL!!!!!) and had to eat it for breakfast with his cup of coffee and some French toast he had made with the bread.  First off, chocolate cake for breakfast?  And if you think it tastes like coffee, maybe it could be...oh I dunno...the COFFEE YOU'RE DRINKING?!?  Dusty doesn't like chocolate cake.  He'll eat it, but never much, and not by choice.  He has eaten more of this chocolate cake than he has ANY chocolate cake put together since I met him almost 8 years ago.  It's that good.  If my dad can't taste the coffee in a cake, then there's no coffee taste in the cake.  Period.  Then he told Dusty that he would've preferred the vanilla icing on it.  But you said you wanted chocolate icing.  I mean, I tried to accommodate him with the cake, even though I didn't charge him for it.  I mean, I didn't charge him for it!  Yes, I welcome feedback, but when I give you a cake, take it and thank me and tell me it was good.  Don't criticize.  Don't offer changes.  If you want to order a cake, then order a cake, get what you want and pay me for it.  If you don't want this kind of cake, then don't order this cake.  If you want a particular icing, then order that icing.  If you get a cake for free, be grateful and not hateful! (Ooh, that was a good one!) 

Dusty and I made soap this weekend!  You've all seen the pictures on facebook, so I won't post them here.  It was so fun!  It was hard, and quite a complex process, but it was a good time together.  We have cute little soaps that will be ready in a few weeks.  I can't WAIT!  We're hopefully going to make some more in the next week or so.  This batch I want to add lavender oil, so it smells all nice. :)  I LOVE lavender.

I wonder what we're going to have for supper tonight?