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Creating Cupcakes

10/21/2015

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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!

​I'm kind of sitting in my living room fearing for my life right now... there's a huge ​bug on the loose. Seriously, we went to catch it and it disappeared. Yikes!
Bugs here in Florida are way different than they were in New York, so it's taking some getting used to. I promise, I'm not actually as scared as I sound over the course of daily life. I can deal with spiders and whatnot (I don't like them, but I can deal with them), but these huge bugs here are just super creepy. Anyway, enough about bugs... but if you don't see a post tomorrow, check to see if the bug ate us ha ha!

So tonight was another night of baking here at the Krigsman house. We have a birthday coming up on Friday, and the twins were extremely excited to help me make some cupcakes to celebrate. Of course, this was a "secret mission" consisting of a trip to the store for ingredients (one of their favorite words) and then coming home to bake. Being that it was so secretive, of course the birthday girl knows all about it already... have I mentioned that my littlest sisters cannot keep a secret?

Unfortunately, we started baking too late for the girls to taste test tonight. Cleaning up the three roomfuls of toys that they had spread out over the course of day was more important than the baking, of course. But they did get to help me mix all of the ingredients, and they got a kick out of watching me turn on the mixer to spread the food coloring around; they get hypnotized by the swirling colors. The girls also love putting the paper cups in the cupcake trays, racing to see who can finish first. Since they didn't get to try a cupcake tonight, my mom told them that they could have one with breakfast tomorrow morning, news that received lots of giggles and big smiles. They've never had a cupcake with breakfast before, so they went to bed extremely excited for the morning.

Tomorrow, I plan on trying my hand at making fondant for the first time. If you don't know anything about baking, fondant is the really smooth covering on cakes that bakeries will use instead of regular icing to make cakes look more professional. I found a recipe to make fondant instead of buying it, and I'd love to see how it goes. I've never worked with this stuff before, but I would really love to be able to use it in my baking creations. If I can get it to work, I can try using it with the cupcakes since that's on a smaller scale, and then work my way up to covering cakes. The best part is that the recipe I found is dairy-free, so my little sisters can enjoy it as well! Wish me luck!

Here's a quick update before I leave... my dad got the bug!! My hero! Yippee!

Thank you so much for your continued support! I look forward to sharing more stories about my experience with foster care, and hopefully hearing from readers who have questions or similar stories to share. I'm always willing to answer questions and hear about other experiences! Please don't forget to like and share my Facebook author page as well!

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Taylor
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Pam
10/22/2015 10:21:12 pm

Sounds like a fun day Taylor!

I want to ask you a question about foster/adopt care and how your parents handled discipline as you were growing up.

At my PRIDE class this week, the topic was discipline (not to be confused with punishment) however, while the topic was discipline, it would seem that some of what they coached us on felt like punishment.

Here is just one of many questions I may ask.

We were given the scenario of a family planning an outing to the ice cream shop. However, Child B misbehaved and needed a consequence. So the family went on the outing but Child B was allowed to watch while all his siblings and parents got the ice cream while Child B did not. Our instructor even went so far as to say that even if the family had not planned an outing, once Child B misbehaved, they would plan an outing so that Child B could see the others getting rewarded for their good behavior while Child B went without.

I find this method alarming, because the instructor's heart seemed so mean-spirited. After 38 years of parenting I am not accustomed to allowing one child to do something that the other wasn't also allowed to do (age and ability allowing). I've always decided that what affects one affects all.

I also don't say to the other children that "well because Child B didn't behave we can't do such and such..."

I am a little curious as to how other families handle this. Do you have any thoughts on this?

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Taylor Faith Krigsman link
10/22/2015 10:59:58 pm

Hi Pam! Wow, great timing... I was about to write my blog post for the evening when I saw your comment. I'll address this in tonight's post, so just bear with me for a little while until I write it. It will be up within the hour! Thanks for the great question!

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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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