Time Flies

They say time flies like the wind. Lately, it's been a hurricane! I haven't had time to come and post like I have in the past. I blame that partly on my new Facebook account...it's so much easier to post a sentence or two once a day...is that time flying or laziness? It's hard to tell...maybe time flies like a Lazyboy recliner...either way, my minutes have been filled with a TON of ministry writing projects involving getting a few studies ready for marketing - which is a new thing for me and my board of directors. So, that involves a lot of treading on new ground we've never walked before - learning new things and basically floundering around, not having a clue what we're doing and doing a TON of praying and walking by faith. It's turning out to be a frightening, exciting, exhilerating, hectic and mind-blowing time to say the least! I wish I could just explain it all...but that would be a book in itself. It's been truly amazing, though...
Just trust me...I have an excuse. I've been busy. Really busy.
Yesterday, while I was ironing at around 4pm, thinking about the class I had at 6:30 - I remembered that Aaron's 16th birthday was the next day (today) and our tradition is that Aaron & Bridgette get to eat birthday cake for breakfast on the kids' birthdays. Yikes! Luckily, Aaron was across the street at his buddy's. He is the kid that appreciates good food. Homemade food. I quickly STOPPED ironing. What to do? What to do? I had to bake a cake before the night was through!!!!! I didn't have a lot of time. It was 4pm...I had a class at 6:30...I had to leave in 2 hours and have dinner on the table for my family...???? Well, Bridgette came in at that moment with some frozen tater tot casserole thingy that was a purchase I made out of obligation from some neighborhood kid who was fundraising a few weeks ago. Perfect! (Didn't want that to go to waste & had to use it SOME time, right? May as well use it when wasn't going to be home for dinner - ick! lol) I whipped up a cake mix (I could hide the box in the recycling bin...) and melted chocolate and spread melted raspberry jam between the layers (made that up myself in a panic while trying to make it not look like a cake mix cake) and frosted it with a can of frosting. Wallah! A perfect birthday cake, if I do say so myself.
Mission accomplished!!!! Aaron came home from across the street at 6pm on the dot (his dinner curfew) and Mike came home from work - dinner was on the table (I added soup and salad) and we had cake for breakfast this morning.
I was working like a crazy woman, though - it was a race against the clock, to be sure. Time seemed to be ticking faster and faster as I tried to speed thngs along. As the cake was baking, I was rushing around, putting away my ironing stuff - the ironing board, iron, folded clothes, clothes on hangers, the basket of clothes not yet ironed, etc. I was setting the table for dinner and making the salad and soup to go along with the tater tot casserole. There didn't seem to be enough time to get it all done. Yet...it all got done.
Kind of an analogy for life with kids, isn't it? I can't believe Aaron's 16 today! He was just two years old YESTERDAY, insisting he wanted to help me make the cake. It seems like it, anyway. He still loves chocolate the same as he always has....so much has changed, yet so much has stayed the same. He was still as thrilled that I had made him a cake for his birthday breakfast. He's still a kid I'm really proud of. I still love being his mom. Some things will never change, I guess. I love that.


 Aaron helping me make his cake for his second birthday. 1997

This morning at breakfast. One candle stayed lit and Bridgette said, "You have a girlfriend!" He probably does.