Weightloss Week 17

It’s strange how making improvements in one area of your life leads you to making improvements in other areas as well.  I’m a stay at home Mom, and unfortunately I’m no June Cleaver!  One of the things I’ve realized by being a stay at home Mom is how fortunate I was that my mother was an amazing stay at home Mom.  One of the millions of things that Mom did for us as kids was that she made beautiful homemade cakes.  She often was asked to make wedding cakes for people we knew.  I fondly recall her sitting at the kitchen table decorating and making icing stars up and down our arms so that she could practice and we could sample the goods!  I wanted to provide this same experience for my daughter, so this week, I made and decorated my first cake.  (YEAH…WHILE I’M DIETING!!)  The cake was a simple cake with a happy face design on it so that I could practice making stars (my 2 year old girl isn’t into allowing me to decorate her arms).  I finished the cake and called up some friends of ours.  We went for a visit, took them the cake and I sampled one small slice (just to get an idea of how it turned out…quite TASTY!)  We left the cake there and I felt so proud of myself!  I can even learn to decorate cakes and still not sabotage my diet!! Weight 232.6 (down 2 Total 38.