My little girl's birthday party is this weekend, and I had a whole elaborate princess cake planned, and was going to spend the week making just that (long story, but I took a Board certification exam for Pediatrics this past weekend - a big deal - and was taking the week off from work to celebrate). Well, my two older kids got sick, and have been staying at home, cutting down drastically on the amount of time I have been able to dedicate to the cakes. I have spent an inordinate amount of time on small details and haven't gotten to much of the good stuff yet. No big deal though, because I was going to still have another two days to do it, right? Wrong! Turns out, they had a huge crisis at work and need a moonlighter to cover tomorrow's call for 24 hours (party is on Sunday). I'll get off of work a few hours before the party, which is fine, but I'll be in from 7 am to 7 am, so I'll lose Saturday, and I won't have the chance to finish the cake the way I want. ARGH! I had such big plans, the first time I was going to be able to spend a whole week just on one cake and not have any work stuff get in the way! Anyhow ... vent vent vent ... off to do as much caking as possible now 
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Thanks, Horselady! You know, as silly as it may sound, while I wouldn't mind someone else torting or leveling (DH is a pro by now!), I'm so stinking particular about the baking! I just know my recipes so well by now that I can tell exactly when the cakes are ready to take out and how I like them, and my mom and DH have had some trouble in the past when I've needed them to check on my baking. I've had both the over-moist over-dense "needed another 8 minutes" cake, and the "shrank a little at the top because it should have been out 8 minutes ago" cake. And I use Leahs's tip and weigh down the cakes when they come out of the oven, which they don't know how to do ... I'm just possessive about the whole process, I guess. Yet another reason why I could never go into business 
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You sound like me! But I admittedly have control issues so I would probably not ask family unless desperate and they wouldn't try unless I was half dying lol. (Having that issue with an upcoming party. To hard to let go because what if they mess up?)
Well good luck to you hope you figure something out and I do feel your pain.
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