I just need to vent!! I love decorating cakes even though I suck at it but I need a break. I'm an office manager at a company that is depends on me alot. Besides my 40 hrs I work overtime and then I'm on call 24hrs. I thought it would be nice so last year I decided instead of buying presnts I would make a simple birthday cake for everyones birthday. Well it got a little out of hand and this month just happens to be everyone and there friggin mom's birthday!!!! AARGH!! Why do I have to be so friggin nice sometimes??? I need a vacation and to make it worse I have 5 birthday's in my family this month. I'm never going to sleep. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't work so much. Then I could dedicate more time to practicing my cake decorating. Well I know this makes no sense but i just need to get it off my chest!!!!
It sound like you need to be a little less nice and make one big cake for everyone birthday and celebrate in the middle of the month. Make it a theme or something and put everyone's name on it. That would save you a headache and you would still get to practice and eat cake. 
Cupcakes... make'em, freeze'em, pull out one for each and decorate when you need'em... and two for you when you're done!
Good luck, girl - you're a whole lot nicer than I am! 
Oh my goodness rflores, I know exactly where your'e coming from. I'm an Admin Manager working 50 hours per week, a Beauty Therapist part time and cake decorating is my passion. I do all the cakes for the people at work and have something like 4 cakes in one week!! Oh and I have 2 kids under 10. 
So I totally sympathise with your position!!
I never thought of freezing cakes. How long can you normally freeze a cake for?
Big hugs rflores and just keep in mind that you can say NO!!
Mary
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