February? Already? and some baking...

Wow! Where has the time gone??? We've been through Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve and here we are just 2 weeks from Valentine's Day! What the hay hay??? I have all of these little projects floating around in my head...I guess I'd better get on the ball! I've been taking some time off to get rooms repainted (Martha Stewart Tobacco Leaf rocks...) and DH is working diligently on our bathroom remodel...10 months and counting...;)

But yesterday, even with all of the other stuff that needs to get done, I decided I wanted to do a little baking. Usually I get this idea on the weekend when the kids are home from school, and as soon as I open my mouth I have 3 little "helpers" just DYING to assist me...ugh. Now, don't get me wrong...I love having the kids working in the kitchen with me.

And by "love," I mean like...

Sorta.

I have these grand fantasies of us all working together (sans fighting, crying, etc.) to create a masterpiece fit for any episode of Cake Boss...but what usually happens is quite the opposite...

So yesterday I decided to bake on my own...I wanted to decorate on my own...I wanted to lick the bowl - on my own.

So that's just what I did. With 2 kids off at school (and not returning for hours...hee hee hee) and my little guy tucked away warm and safe in his bed for a nap, I made brownies. And I decorated them (well, some of them...by the time I was halfway through with them the kids got home from school and the baby woke up). Then my assistants took over...

Not quite the masterpieces I usually envision, but delicious nonetheless.