I need to know something…how come when our kids are little and they tell us “no” we find it unacceptable. I shouldn’t presume to think that you are the same way, so please forgive…
But, when MY children don’t want something…say lasagna for dinner, they say, “no, I don’t want that”. Or if I ask them if they want to wear the blue shirt for school and they say, “No”… I get agitated. I want them to say yes..to be agreeable…but when kids don’t want something they don’t hesitate to let you know.
I am sure that I was the same way as a child.
But somewhere along the way I, as I am sure many of you, turned into a “Yes” person.
Would you please bake 3,000 cookies for a school function? Umm, sure yes.
Can you coordinate this event that is going to take you weeks and weeks and hours and hours? Sure, why not!
I need someone to practice my knife throwing skills at, can you help? Ok, I’ll be right over.
Now I should say no, no and hell no. But I say yes. And complain about it.
I don’t know if I am afraid to hurt people’s feelings or if I still have that desperate junior high mentality of wanting to people to like me.
I am sure there is some sciencey reason why I have turned into a yes person. Probably some really smart person spent lots of money at school figuring it out…but where is he now in my time of need?
But, I mean really…I eat cotton candy, own sparkly sneakers, and still want a My Little Pony. I am basically a kid…why can I not say no?
So I am making a deal with myself here and now. I am going to be more like my 6 year old…
Yep, that’s right…just you wait…
Do I want to go to your “Jewelry Party”? Nope, I sure don’t!
Do I want to come over and help you paint? Yeah, that’s a no.
Do I want to bake 3,000 cookies for a school function? Well, actually I do. I love cookies…so that will stay a yes.
But anyway, you get my drift.
So, cheers to saying “No” 🙂
Now, I won’t let you throw knives at my head…but how about knives in truffles? That I will say yes to!
These truffles are super easy. I used Bakerella’s recipe, you should too.
Crumble the cake…
And add your frosting, mix it up and form them into balls.
After they have chilled dip them into white candy bark. Before the candy sets stick in a cute little sugar knife. Mine are Wilton brand that I found at my local craft store, but here’s a link if you can’t find them.
Just press it in gently before the candy sets.
When they have all set I used some canned decorating frosting…
and piped on some “blood”.
Don’t worry about being exact.
What’s so fun, is that the knife doubles as a “handle”, so they are easy to eat!! Love that!
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Yyyyiiiiikkkkeeeesssss!!!!! But they’re cool anyways:) It looked like when you stuck the knife into the ball, I was imagining the red cake stuff would come outside. And whoever took a bite of the ball, I might’ve imagined that more of the “blood” would come out. Sorry to be rude though!
I made Halloween-themed cake balls the other day. I used chocolate cake for the balls and them dipped them in orange colored white chocolate.
Yeah, these pretty much put my cake balls to shame. I think I’m going to have to throw a few of these into the mix too. You know, for the cuteness factor.
I love this blog today !!
Cheers to saying no, indeed! I am learning to say no (or, to be precise, “not anymore”) to things that do not bring me joy. For instance, I used to like some of the PTA work that I did at my children’s elementary school. But found over the last few years that I dreaded it more and more. So for this year, I gave it all up. Let someone else have a turn. They will live without me.
I absolutely love these! They will freak my kids out when I make them!!!
….and reading my comment, that makes me sound really terrible! I DO say “yes” to a lot of things….just not everything!
OK, that is all. 🙂
I am turning into a “no” person. It’s all due to Blissdom when the speaker talked about “choosing discomfort over resentment.” And she gave the example of baking cupcakes for school and complaining about it the entire time. This week I had to say “no” to a volunteer meeting and working the concession stand…and it felt FREEING! 😉
And these truffles are killing me! Pun intended! Those little KNIVES!!! I have not seen those! Just awesome, Shelly.
You need to share this with Bakerella, she’d probably love it!
Just when I think you couldn’t possibly amaze me anymore you totally do! You are flipping BRILLIANT! 😀
GREAT IDEA AND THEY ARE CUTE. THANK U.