Please Stand By...

So, I tried to post some pics of the twins' first birthday, but Vox gave me an error message when I tried to upload them.  Just goes along with the day I've been having. 

Not so bad, I guess, but I tried making my favorite Banana Bread recipe (the same one I have made so many times before), and the consistancy didn't come out the same.  Hmmmm.  I figured it would be fine once it was baked.  Then, I tried some cute fluted baking tubes that I have, but I didn't put the parchment paper in the bottom properly, so some of the batter seeped through and ended up burning on the bottom of the oven.  Sigh.  So THEN, I pull out the tubes (and the loaf pan that had the remainder of the batter) from the oven, and once the bread had cooled a little bit, I tried taking it out of the tubes and pan so that it could cool all the way through before I sliced it.  One of the tubes didn't release the bread properly so the loaf broke in half, and the pan didn't give up all its bread either.  The other tube was fine.  I started slicing the pretty fluted loaves of bread into slices, only to discover that the centre of the bread had not baked through yet.  Most of it was fine.... just a small part in the middle.

Sigh.

I've made this recipe so many times before, so why was it so darned difficult this time? 

Anyway, I'll try to upload the pics of the babies party again later.  I think I'll just put my feet up and watch the season opener of CSI (the babies are napping and Mike took Brianna out to run a couple errands).  Ahhh.