Butter Pie

Finding out as I left church at 4:15 yesterday that my brother-in-law and 2 of his friends would be at our house at 5:00 for dinner sent me into a tailspin.  My problems were numerous:

1. The dinner I had planned on would not feed 3 extra people so I had to come up with something else
2. I do all my grocery shopping on Mondays so my food supplies were seriously dwindling
3. I had a grouchy baby who can no longer sleep during church because it's way more fun to smile and play with her many admirers

Luckily I was able to get the babe down for a nap, then figure out what to feed everyone.  I decided to make our beloved Cookie Pie for dessert.  Somehow in the midst of marinating chicken, cooking pasta, and chopping tomatoes I doubled the amount of butter in the dough.  Bryan was mixing it for me and commented that it had a TON of butter.  In my frenzy I wasn't really focusing on little things like the amount of butter and said, "well, it's cookie pie- did you expect it to be healthy?"

Fast forward an hour later- we have finished dinner and I check on the cookie pie.  The oven is full of smoke as excess butter drips out of the pie and down on the burner.  That's when I finally realize my mistake.  Oops.

Want to know the worst part of the story?  We still ate it.

Crash!

 Yesterday afternoon things were pretty calm around here.  Jilly was taking a nap and I was reading on the couch when all of a sudden there was a huge commotion from my bedroom.  I raced back there to confirm my suspicion that our closet rack had collapsed.  This is the disaster I found:

 

This has happened before (in September) and we were worried it would happen again since the "fix" was to put the exact same rack back up in the same way.  It's so frustrating because we really do not have very much on that closet rack, and when it broke last time they told us that it happens all the time.  If it happens all the time, wouldn't it be logical to purchase new racks that are stronger?  It will be fascinating to see how our apartment complex "fixes" the problem this time.  On the bright side, I have a great excuse to not get dressed today!

Luckily I just got out my Spring decorations so at least there's something in my home that makes me happy!

I love the April bunny and the button egg printable from here.  

The sweet little girl in that frame and my vase full of eggs make my heart flutter.

Happy Spring!