Anthea Turner eat your heart out!!!!

I am having a rare (and it is VERY rare) Domestic Goddess kind of week...

This week (in my infinite wisdom) I decided to take on the job of MAKING the birthday cakes for my children this year instead of taking the "easy route" down to Tesco's for the ready made variety.

Since the first birthday is in 3 weeks I thought I'd better get started!

So, this is no ordinary birthday cake, no no no... this is the birthday cake of a fussy girl child...and not just 1 fussy girl child but 2!! a twin cake!!

Yes... I now realise that I am completely barking mad...BUT I'm having fun just thinking about it so I decided to go with the flow and do it anyway hahahaha.

I enlisted the help of my lovely sis in law and bezzie mate Tracey and her fab cookery skills ("Ooooh let's make meringue snakes!!! uh oh...they're looking a bit more like splats really, Bugger it, KIDS! Look what we made!!!") and her fancy cake books of course and we're off. Firstly we decided to make a list and hit the t'interweb for the ingredients, then we decided we thought £30 in ingredients might be a bit much so we're off to Morrisons instead!!!

Pray for us....


So that was the cake thing sorted, next I decided to use up some crap jam. I'd tried to do a good thing by purchasing reduced sugar but I didn't realise that by reducing the sugar in the jam production it made it totally SHITE and of course no one wanted to eat it, so I made jam tarts instead. They were a winner!

This evening I am preparing a chocolate pudding with custard for my little man's (Jake not Richard hahaha) pudding as he has returned to school today and I always like to spoil him on his first day back cos I miss him (all together now.... awwwwwwww!!!) I only miss him the first day though.... hahahah

At the weekend I cleaned the whole of the conservatory (and thats a big f*ckin conservatory) and it took me ages and I was knackered... as was Tracey, who I made help me heh.

I turned up Jake's school trousers, fixed his school jumper, put names in everything (for all 3 of them...hate that job) and prepared his lunchbox before bed last night. (I also bathed them and did the obligatory nit-check incase you're wondering too... I just LOVE being a mum!).

THEN I got them all up at the crack of sparrows fart this morning and made porridge for breakfast before cleaning teeth and washing faces and dressing and shoving people out of the door for 8.30am, then I came home and stripped and washed the beds and got the sheets dry before the rain started and now.... now I have to go get my precious son...

I'm knackered!!!

Bet Anthea turner has a woman to go collect her kids...oh wait, Anthea doesn't have kids, heh... she isn't as perfect as me then!!!