le cupcake

I really, really, really want to own a cupcake shoppe, and I think I would love for it to be named le cupcake- l for leigh and e for elliot :o) But I wanted my cupcakes to be used for some bigger purpose, and I really couldn’t piece together how I was going to do that. We had a ministry meeting at church today and we barely scratched the surface of things that we needed to be talking about, but it was good, just to see what ministries are happening at the church and how what we are doing as a church is lining up with our vision as New Life. There are certainly things that we are doing well, for example making community happen and connecting people together. But I still feel like we are not doing much to get outside of our four walls. We have opened up Tuesday night dinner’s to take place only the 2nd and 4th Tuesday’s of the month to give some room for service opportunities to take place the other two Tuesday’s, so I’m curious to see where that takes us. At the meeting, Jordan was talking about how he works at the Ivy in the events department and invited people to come over and hang out with him and the other residents. As I mentioned, I have really been wanting to do more service (outside the church), and have been advocating it for some time, but haven’t really felt like I knew what I should be doing, and just simply haven’t really put much effort into thinking about it other than waiting for action to be taken by someone else. If you want something to get done, do it yourself, right? So today, I asked Jordan to send me a list of all of the residents that he works with and when their birthday’s are so that I can make them cupcakes and deliver them to each person on his or her birthday with Elliot. This way, I can bake and we don’t have to be the only one’s to eat the deliciousness, I can be out doing something in the community and bringing a little smile for birthdays since I love birthday’s so much as it is! It will also be something to help keep me occupied during the day when I’m feeling bored- Jordan says that there are about 10 birthday’s a month (whew!). Also, for our Wonderful Wednesday’s playgroup, we are raising money this month to support New Mom’s, Inc., a local organization that seeks to serve and empower young and single mothers. I asked Shayna if she thought it would be a good idea to bake some sweet treats for the moms and tots (if their parents allow, of course), to be able to purchase some baked goodies, and the funds collected will be used to purchase supplies for New Moms. I’m really excited about this endeavor, and feel like this is just right for getting me mobilized with my baking! Can’t wait until Tuesday to start baking away! Here’s to the beginning of le cupcake!