Things I have learned

Here are some things I have learned over the last few days:

• Do not try to whip single cream. It will not form "soft peaks" even after 25 minutes of whipping. You need whipping cream or double cream.
  
• If the recipe says that it makes 48 peanut butter cups it will. Do not try to use large muffin trays with small muffin cases - they deform - the cases not the trays. (I only have two 12 hole mini muffin trays, hence the large ones)
  
• Hide the peanut butter cups from Mr Yoastie and my parents otherwise you will not get any.
  
• The cat can not pass his bowl over to you even if you insist. Unfortunately the three year old daughter has not learned this. Neither has the cat learned to stop meowing at the three year old with the cat food and rubbing up against her.
  
• Father Christmas uses the same wrapping paper as us. This has made number two child very suspicious. Not even her big sister explaining that Father Christmas must have bought it at the same shop convinced her.
• Do not trust Woolworths to get the ordered present to you by Christmas. It still hasn't arrived.