I spent part of yesterday making a cake and cupcakes for the Listen Up! meeting we are having today in honor of Halloween tomorrow. I made a very important decision while I was baking all of that stuff.

I am NEVER making cupcakes again.

I do not know why I keep trying to make them. I am terrible at it. I burn their cupcake butts and none of my cupcakes are ever the same size. Half spill over the cupcake hole in the pan and the other half never even reach the top. They’re lopsided, discolored and some are even bumpy. I can’t ice them correctly either. I have never been able to make decent cupcakes so I am just not going to make them anymore. From now on, cakes only. I can screw up a cake too, but it takes me much longer.

We took Mom and went to see my precious girl Amber Saturday. It had been almost a month since I have seen her. Mr. X took me, Crystal, Amber and Mom out to breakfast and then we hit Walmart and shopped for a little while. It was a great day. Mom had never been to Amber’s college so she got to see the campus and her dorm and all that.

When we got home, I let Crystal watch the movie Blair Witch, which I thought she had already seen. She hadn’t. I have only seen the movie once and when I watched it I remember being the most frightened right at the end. Apparently, it’s genetic. Crys was a little weirded out by the whole thing. I prayed with her after the movie and made sure she understood that it’s all a big fake. But she still didn’t sleep good that night. I never let my kids watch scary, gruesome movies … I guess I didn’t think this one was all that scary - especially since the girl in the movie is such a bad actress and so annoying that by the end of the movie you really hope the witch finds her and hits her in the head with a tree.