Matt's Debut

As I just got off the phone with one of my consultant's who has been struck down with the flu, I had a flash back to one of my least favorite things ... sickness! I'm sure you can imagine how disturbing it would be to have someone cooking for you that was sneezing, coughing, or worse, feverish. But as an independent consultant, also known as "self employed", there are no sick days. Well, sick days, yes, sick pay? No. So here goes the story of one show that I ALMOST had to cancel.

It was a Sunday, 2pm show and the hostess was my friend Amy*.  You remember the one, that gal that I pushed down when she was learning to walk? Amy, the one that I call "Betty Crocker".   The gal that told me "if you ever get invited to a show, go because they have really good food!" (*see September Blog posts) YES, that Amy.   Amy typically hosted a show for me every year, without fail. But Amy, worked full time and was picking up an extra weekend job and this was going to be her last show for a long time. It was Sunday morning, very early, and I woke up to a terrible sore throat. As someone who got Strep throat for every year of my life, from age 6 on up, I recognized the symptoms. I knew I had Strep. So I told my husband I needed to go to the clinic and get a strep test. Shortly after we returned with a positive result. At the time, like most other times, we really needed the money that the show was going to bring in. So I said to my husband, Matt, that Amy was probably not going to be able to reschedule. An idea popped into my head, "I wonder if Matt would do the show for me???". As soon as the thought bubble reached the top of my head, Matt said to me "so, do you want me to just go and do it for you?"  He had read my mind.

I was hurriedly thinking of how to explain the recipe that I was going to make, it was a rather complicated one. And he started getting dressed with his khaki pants, a button down and he grabbed the denim apron. I had packed the night before, so he was pretty much ready to go.  I started to explain this 8 step recipe to him and he said " I have a better idea, how about I just make a cake and show them the cool decorator set?"   And so it happened. The crowd was very friendly (my Grandma, my mom, Amy's family and neighbors were there). And Matt, donning his denim apron, dazzled them by decorating a chocolate cake. It was a great show with over $500 in sales. And he still brags about how his show average is $500. Once in a while, I slip in that you have to have 3 shows to have an average. Most of the time, I just smile. He is really cute.