I baked a cake for the first time in... well forever. And I spent most of the time cleaning up the mess, then I did baking. I used a hand held mixer my mom gave me almost 4 years ago and boy does that thing make it interesting. My entire kitchen is splattered with red velvet dots. Jaycie and Jack loved it because they got to lick the floor, but they missed a few spots and now the bottoms of my feet look like I have chicken pox. But hopefully it was not all for nothing. I'm waiting for what little remains of the batter I put in the cake pan to cool so I can taste my treat. I'll get back to you on how it all turned out. Until then here is picture of Jack the cat.