Icing is my Canvas

I guess I should first explain why I am writing a blog.  I have wanted to write one for quite some time now but really never knew what I would say. About a year ago I started baking and decorating cakes for my family, SLOW DOWN~~ now I have baked and decorated before but never like this.  My husband, as a gift to me for putting up with his four years of doctoral school while also raising 5 kids basically by myself ;) sent me off to fulfill one of my life long dreams, to take cake decorating classes.  Needless to say things went well and I started posting pictures of my cakes to a popular social networking site and the requests from friends started coming in, needless to say I was excited!!  I get such enjoyment out of  seeing other people happy, making cakes is one way I can do that for someone!
I have always considered myself creatively challenged that is unless you give me a cake and some icing, in school I was very limited in my art classes and craft projects always seemed to frustrate me, stick figures were my forte and I found drawing to be a bore, that is until I discovered I could do almost anything with icing.  My mom let me have free reign in the kitchen as a child and I would make all sorts of cakes, cookies and cupcakes and she would let me tinker around with her decorating kit, she didn't have a ton of items in which to work with but I did my best and that is when I think the bug hit.  I also recall as little girl watching my dad sit at our kitchen table making sugar roses by hand for a birthday cake for my mom, in some little way I can't help but think that my decorating skills just might be genetic :)   So back to the whole idea of how I am creatively challenged.  Well, that is until you give me a cake and some icing.  An iced cake is my canvas and those colorful pastry bags are my palette,  I finish one cake and honestly can't wait until the next order comes through my inbox!
So what's it like to raise 5 kids that range in age from pre-school to high school while trying to run a cake  business on the side?  Words can't even describe it!!!