Finish what you start....

We got the blondies bikes going and I had a wonderful day riding bikes with them.  Why didn't we do that 6 months ago??? 

So often that is the way it goes.  I wait to do something that I KNOW would be a good thing... Finally get it done -  then feel bad because I didn't do it sooner.  How dumb is that!!!! 

Why not revel in the moment.  The moment that whatever "IT" is... well it is finally accomplished.  No use in wasting good time feeling bad about what I  "shoulda, woulda coulda" done.  Just feel really good about the moment I do finish it.

I have a quilt I started for a niece.  I haven't quilted in many years...( I tried to figure out HOW many years but it made my head hurt so I quit). For some crazy reason I thought I could start quilting again by making one of the most difficult quilts there is.  So now "the quilt" is in progress.... I don't know how long it will be in progress but I do know that I am not going to feel bad about it.  I am not going to beat myself up over the fact that I am not feverishly sewing till by fingers bleed to finish it.

I will get it done.  I won't feel bad about how long it takes. AND.. I will revel in each stitch that I do knowing that it is at least a  stitch in the right directions. 

Most of the time my job is amazing. I get to be a part of a very special time in a family's history.  The birth of a child.  Wonderful, magical, joyful.

Then there are those times that my job isn't so great.  Calling parents in the wee hours of  the morning to tell them they better come in to the unit... something has gone wrong.... their baby is ill....

Soooo....
I want to be a baker.  Cake baker.  Cupcake baker.  Baker of all that is sweet and delicious. I have been supplying the night shift staff in my unit with goodies for a while now.  The other day, after a sad and hard night at work I made a butter rum cake.  It was delish! I actually made two.  A small one for my husband and a big one for no one in particular.  It will be going to work with me tonight.

I got my first "order" for a cake... A carrot cake for a ladies bunko group.  How much to charge?  Probably nothing... It is for my mother's bunko group.  But it is a start.

Monday I am going to practice making those pretty little flowers you find on fancy cakes.... Do you think Carlos the Cake Boss could take me in and teach me a few things.... Hmmmmm