Well it's Sunday again. I'm sneaking away from the kids to do a little blogging. Not much is new around here. I am still being a mom, still making cakes & watching kids, still a Young Womens leader.... still need more hours in every day but make do with the 24 I have, lol. I still think it would be just great if I could have one day a month where my body & mind didn't require sleep. I would totally use that night (where everyone else is sleeping) to get all sorts of things done... such a nice thought. Totally not going to happen though. Instead I live by this: My house may be messy but I'm busy taking care of the living. It's just my season in life. So many children, so much laundry, so many responsibilities... so little time!
In the last year I have discovered that I am lactose intolerant. Wow, that really takes the fun out of eating. When I first cut dairy out of my diet, I felt like all I could eat are meat and vegetables and my homemade bread. I lost 10 pounds, which I'm happy about bc I'm back to my pre-pregnancy, pre-marriage weight. My mom thinks I'm too skinny, she's always telling me (and my siblings, lol) that she's worried I'm not eating enough. I eat lots... it's just food that really isn't processed at all, so the weight just fell off. I did figure out how to maintain the weight, I was a little worried I would keep losing and then really be too skinny. I eat almond 'ice-cream' and coconut 'ice cream'. Wow, those are sooooo good!! Thank heavens for the companies that actually produce dairy free food that actually tastes good! (There are alot of foods that don't taste good, I've wasted alot of money doing trial and error.) I would say that I am dairy free 99% of the time. Sometimes I will take a lactaid and have a little something, but not very often. It's just not worth it. I feel SO much better, my stomach doesn't hurt any more, the bloating is gone and all the other symptoms are gone. It's been a good change for me. I do miss chocolate alot though... I will always eat Bernard Callebaut chocolate though... it's worth the tummy ache & all the symptoms! But it's not around that often... too bad ;)
This past week I made a cake for a dental office. I had next to no time to do it... I had to really think on my feet as I made this cake! And I had to work fast! I busted my butt to get it done, but I did it! I covered this cake in fondant in record time... 9 minutes from start to finish! (that includes rolling the fondant out!) It was pretty fun to make. I was a dental assistant for 10 years so I had to dust off that part of my brain... I had to think about the anatomy of a tooth and figure out how to make cake LOOK like a tooth. Somehow I did it. I think it took me about 4 1/2 hours start to finish for the whole project, although that was over 3 periods of time. (lol, what's new there!) Here's the picture:
I love my little tooth going to tooth heaven. :) And I made the perio probe and mirror pretty close to scale. I even put a piece of wire to look like a burr (drill bit) in the hand piece (drill). So fun! (okay, maybe I only find it fun bc I was a dental assistant, lol)
Well, Bryce is home from his Sunday meetings. I'm off to go visit with him. (Oh and we still don't know anything about med school for another almost 2 months. All this waiting gets a little old, lol.)
