Tragedy and kitchens.

Today. Today. Wednesday. Today. I'm still in a state of disbelief as to what happened this morning in Ottawa. You always see it happening to other countries but never think it can or will happen to you. What a shock to listen to and watch the events unfold from the shooting this morning. I feel so sad that we as a nation have to deal with this. Yet together we stand, united and strong. We are Canadian Strong.

Tinks birthday is a mere 2 days away. I've got her modeling chocolate made up, as well as the raspberry filling (still have to do the vanilla) and Smarties sorted out by colour into cups. Tomorrow is cake baking and Friday shall be the day I assemble -- and possibly even the day of the party. Who knows as Husby is away from home for a few days thanks to work so I'm trying to juggle everything so that he will be home for her party this year. Last year he missed it. It was sad that he missed her first birthday.


So long as I have all the components ready putting together the cake won't be a problem. Shouldn't take very long at all. Edit: I've tried working with this modeling chocolate. It's so sticky and dry. I've tried kneading it and rolling it out in hopes it will come together. I've added in some more corn syrup. Just a bit and that seems to have maybe done the trick. It's sitting in the fridge right now chilling so that I can work it some more once the bigger kids are in bed. Pretty sure Dinky is going to stay up and keep me company as per normal. If this stuff doesn't work I'm going to be pissed. I don't have anymore white chocolate chips. Ugh.


R2D2 came home together with his school photos. They look fantastic! I'm so happy we decided to go with magnets this year and not the standard photos. I shall put them into Christmas cards (I should probably get started on those so that I can actually send them out this year), as well as a school photo from last year. What can I say. Last year was busy..

Dinky had his weight check yesterday!

9 lbs 10.8 oz!
He's getting so big! I cannot believe that he will be 3 months old on Friday. There is exactly 21 months between Tink and Dinky. It's kind of funny. R2D2 is on the 22nd. Husby and I are on the 23rd. Tink and Dinky are on the 24th. Would have been nice if Dinky was born on the 21st or the 25th just to keep things going in a nice pattern, but hey. I guess we can't have everything we want.


I'm excited for bed time. It's been a long day. Still no word on when we're going to Children's. I've given up worrying about it. We'll get the call when we get it. I can no longer allow that to dominate everything.

Yesterday I was asked by someone if I was "having depression" with everything that's been going on. It's funny because I'm not. I'm not at all depressed by anything that has happened in the last 3 months. Sometimes I'm sad we don't know what's going on with and then I realize I'm never given any more than I can handle and that's that. It is what it is and there's nothing I can do about it. Worrying over what-ifs and could-bes is not going to do anything but get me worried sick. So. That's that!