Unexpected Happenings

Hubby's mom had a mild heart-attack last Wednesday. It's always hard to find out what's really going on when she's 1000 miles away. But the information given to us Thursday had his mom in the hospital for another 6 days to monitor new drugs being given. After looking at everything, we decided to send Hubby to PA to help out his dad while his mom's in the hospital (They're 86 years old). So Friday and yesterday were full of trying to get as much done as possible before he left town. He flew out this morning and is due back Wednesday evening. So he left me here to pull off a birthday party and finish Christmas preparations. I wasn't looking forward to it, but felt up to the challenge. So today's schedule had me baking 3 cake mixes for the castle cake and making 4 turrets for the corners. So I start off making a cake. Have the batter in the pan and am going to put it in the oven. Well, I was already thinking of the next task and I "missed" the oven rack and dumped 1/2 the batter in the oven (on the door and down between the door and oven and into the drawer beneath the oven). An hour later, I was ready to start over, except all I really wanted to do was call it quits. But here I am, a mere 14 hours later and I've completed my tasks for the day. The cake is assembled with the base coat of icing and the turrets are made. The Singer, to be helpful, made dinner tonight. Egg rolls. Half-way through rolling them, she needed assistance, so I rolled the rest and somehow I got the pleasure of cleaning up the kitchen afterwards. Oil was splattered far and wide. But the kitchen is cleaned, and the egg rolls were very tasty. Tomorrow's schedule includes a dentist appointment early, mopping the kitchen floor, finishing the castle decorations, and making a sample 'gingerbread' house. The Imp and I assembled 16 houses Friday night. After tomorrow, I could stay out of the kitchen for quite a while, except that Christmas is fast approaching.
The good news is that Hubby is safely in PA and his mom was released from the hospital today. Not sure of the details yet, but he's got a list of house cleaning and errands that will help his mom catch up on her Christmas preparations.
The weather's turned cool, finally. It's actually starting to feel like Christmas. Hubby is dealing with temps in the 20's and 30's. He really hates the cold. I bought him a new sweatshirt to keep him warm.
Gotta go make the girls settle down and sleep, then I'll turn in.