This whole kid birthday thing is stressful. Not like off the wall stressful, but enough. He is SO darn particular about his cake. Ugh, I had to do a sketch of it.... A SKETCH! What almost 5 year old has his mom do that? He was very descriptive as I did it. So it looks like it will be a dinosaur cake. A sheet cake with a round lake on the bottom middle, a volcano with lava in the top right, rocky terrain and dinosaurs on the left, trees on the top and bushes through out. Sigh.... I ordered little dinosaur toys for it and am going to make the trees out of sugar cookies. I think I will use rock candy for the rocks. For the volcano? I think I am going to bake a smaller cake and cut it into a mountain shape, cover it with chocolate frosting and pipe some red and orange on it for the lava.

I feel bad about not inviting all of the kids in his class, but I am paying 10.99 a kid at Chuck E Cheese and I so can not afford to pay for that many, plus food and drinks for the adults. I hope I don't make any enemies. :/ I read the names on the class list having him say yes or no, and made him stop when we used up all the invites. I think that's as fair as I could get.

ooooh I am reading HP Mallory's Toil and Trouble, LOVE it.

I am going to start to do a beauty recommendation each week. So without further ado...

This weeks recommendation is Benefit lip tint. I swear by the stuff. You can add one coat for a subtle rosy lip or ad several for a more dramatic red, or pink, depending on the color you get. It is also great for your cheeks. Make sure you put a little gloss on after to finish the look.