Cookies and A Cake

 Whew....I have so much catching up to do for me to know what is happening in each of your lives...I will get there...I promise.

Today....I want to talk about the cookies and the cake that I was in charge of picking up for Mylee's grad party...

I ordered these cookies a few weeks ago...  This lady makes the best tasting decorated sugar cookies which is just one reason she stays booked all the time.  I've ordered decorated cookies from her many times and she always does and excellent job.  

I went to pick them up on Friday morning around 10:15.....  She and I had talked about the timing and she told me that they would be in the (cutest) little cooler on her front porch by 10:00.  I looked in the cooler and there were two different orders...One was for SFA and the other was for a different college with different colors.  

I knew I had the right cookies because the were purple and white...SFA colors.  This I could see through the clear plastic on the top of the box.  After I had picked them up....For some unknown reason, I  decided to pull over and take a look at them.  Sure enough...inside the box was several cookies that read "Congratulations Maggie."

Maggie??  Where did that come from.  I looked back at my messages to confirm that I had told her MYLEE.  Yes....I had. I sent her a message and explained that the cookies had the wrong name...  I told her that the cookies were beautiful and that we would work with just having the other cookies.   By the time I received her reply, I was completely across town.  

Her message read..."Your order is still in my house."  She had put the wrong order out in the cooler.  Truthfully, I was very surprised that she would have not just two, but three orders for SFA cookies.  I turned around...drove back across town to exchange the cookies.  This moment of panic was resolved...  

I then head out to pick up the cake...I get to the bakery and they tell me it's not ready yet....could I give them about 30 minutes.  I leave to go run another errand and when I come back to pick up the cake....THEY CAN NOT FIND IT!!  what?  you were just working on it.  

Panic was on the verge of coming back....a couple of the employees went to the back to try to locate it.  Seems that when they put it in the cooler, it was placed on a different shelf due to the extra height that was on the cake.  FOUND!!  They found it and I was soon headed home.  

This was a delicious red velvet cake...and you can see that it was decorated with two of the decorated cookies as well as flowers.

By the end of the day....I needed a dip in the pool....for sure!! 

No matter how well you think you have things planned out....you need to always be ready for a few hiccups!!  It was truly a great evening...

*** I wanted to add about a very special moment for Mylee.  Sam's mother...Mylee's great grandmother passed away in 2023.  About a month before she passed, she gave Mylee her graduation card. She wanted Mylee to wait until her graduation to open it.  She opened it at the party and not only was there a monetary gift, but a sweet message that Mylee will always hold dear to her heart.  There were a few tears!!  

Have a Blessed Day sweet Friends..

Shug