Vanilla Cupcake Mix...yum!
Mixing it up with my hand-mixer (should have used the stand mixer)
Baking up nice and fluffy
Cooling down a bit before frosting
Frosting with the homemade Sprinkles recipe
These are nice but they are missing something...
Little cute brown and pink dots from Sprinkles!
Overall I think it was a pretty good mix. It has that "homemade" taste to the recipe, pretty good but not as much flavor as I would have liked. It's a good gift idea for someone who has everything and you could include cupcake liners and cupcake picks.
Moving on.
Have you ever been in a friendship funk? The kind of funky place where you start to lose your faith in people? I have several friends that I am pretty close with and love them dearly, so this isn't about them (love you ladies and you will see this because you all have blogs!). But, lately I have been thinking a lot about people that I'm not very close with anymore. Why is this? Do friendships go through cycles? Does anyone else experience this?
The girls I was friends with in high school, we don't even speak. One of my best friends from college dropped our friendship, during our beach week, right after graduation! I couldn't even believe it! Since then friendships have come and gone, so what in the world makes a lasting friendship these days?
Personally, I think it comes down to integrity, something that is lacking in our society today. Should I really have to pull someone's teeth to RSVP to a party I'm hosting? Why should a yes or no response be so hard? Should I keep sending birthday cards, anniversary cards or anything else to someone who can't even remember to pick up the phone for my birthday? When I got married I thought all my friends would get excited. Instead I feel I got just the opposite. Of course, there were the few, true-blue gals who stepped up to the plate, so I don't want to make it seem like nothing was done for me. But, I even had someone tell me they wanted to throw a shower, which never happened. Instead I planned my own shower with my mom.
Here's the question. Do you just keep on doing kind acts for people when you know you won't get the same done for you? Or, do you just keep doing what you do, even if you don't get a single thing back? My mom always says "you just keep being you" but at some point don't you just want to give up?
I recently saw on Kelly's Korner that she started a new bible study called "Lord, Change My Attitude." I ran out to Lifeway Bookstore right away to purchase it. I opened it up and the very first chapter was called "Stop Your Grumbling!" Wow, that really hit me hard. Even my husband had to agree with the title! I want to keep being me and not let issues like I've talked about here bother me, but it's hard to let go of them. I pray that my friendships now can become stronger and I can let go and stop grumbling about the ones that have hurt me in the past!
Thoughts?
