I say, Oh Little Pea, in exasperation. Let me just share a bit about the day I had with Little Pea last week with you, ok?
The gardener was enjoying another birthday last week. The snow had been cleared away enough so that the twins could go to school. Little pea and I were chilling at home with plans to bake a cake and make the gardeners favorite meal - sweet and sour chicken. I was also going to do a little nap time sewing. That my dear friends, did not happen. (inhale. deep breath. and breathing out my nose. ok...ready to go on)
Picture this. I'm in the kitchen. Baking. I throw something away in the garbage can. As I moved the garbage can, it magically talked to me.
Odd isn't it? That's what I thought. I start to dig.
And I find Little Pea's brand new talking Miss Manners teapot she got for Christmas, in the garbage. In there. In with all the coffee grounds. The dirty diapers. The packaging from the chicken we had eaten the night before. Ohhh yuck. {cover your eyes - what comes next is not very nice - the retired cop talk in me} Well, that's not exactly what I said but I can tell you that it rhymes with yuck and I only said it to myself under my breath.
Just a teapot you say? Why get so upset. Um...yeah, here's why.
It was not just a teapot.
There was her new Leap Frog cell phone.
Some blocks.
A horse.
A plastic play plate.
Some plastic play food.
And her SHOES! Her Robeez cute adorable leather faux mary jane shoes were in the garbage!
Now you see the reason why the profane language came in.
Had it not been for Miss Manners the talking teapot who said, "more please" when I moved the garbage can - all those things would have been on their way to the city dump.
So as I'm cleaning all of this up - remember - I'm baking cakes for the gardener, right?! Um, only I in fact forgot that little detail and burned his cakes. OK...another fun photo coming your way.
Yeah, see his cakes came out of the pan like...well, let me rephrase that. In fact, they did NOT come out of the pan. That was the biggest problem. That and the blackness of the brown that wasn't supposed to be black.
K...moving on. I decide...in my infinite wisdom, it all tastes the same. I'm gonna ice it anyway and we can still eat it. Right? This is the part you shake your head and say, "No Trish. NO! Not right!". Dang! NOW you tell me!
I go ahead and ice the cake.
It tasted kind of funny but then again, I'm not a cake girl so I don't really like the stuff. Too sweet for me.
And the ideas I had for decorating couldn't be done because of the um, uneven surfaces I had to work with on the cake. It kind of looked like it had been stepped on. You ready for another fun photo? Oh yeah...here it is.
Would you eat that? The Gardener came home from work. Looked at the table with his cake, sunk his finger into the icing, looked at me and says, "Did you taste this?". Well, yes, why? He says, the icing is awful. Nice. He digs the can - um, cuz I'm not Sandra Lee, out of the garbage - the same garbage where all the toys had been - and says, "This can says best if used by March...2009". It did sort of have an odd yellow tinge to it. So, he blew out his candles and no one ate cake.
SO...how's your day going? Better now that you read that fiasco, huh?!
xoxo,
Trish
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