Take 2 – August Secret Subject Swap

Welcome to another Secret Subject Swap. This week 13 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts.

Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts. Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:

Baking In A Tornado
Dawn's Disaster
Black Sheep Mom
Indian American Mom
Home on Deranged
Coach Daddy
Just A Little Nutty (Guest Post)
It's Yummilicious
Dates 2 Diapers
Rocks, No Salt Mommy
Crazy As Normal
IBD, Daddy and Me! 
That Suburban Momma 


My subject is: If you were on the show WIFE SWAP. what rules would you incorporate? It was submitted by: Dates 2 Diapers. Here goes:

I’m not really sure if the intent was for me to list the rules I’d leave for the woman cursed with living with visiting my family, or the rules I might bring to the house where I was vacationing imparting my wisdom. Since I don’t know anything about the situation I’d be entering in this scenario and what they may benefit from, I’m going to share what I might leave behind for the sucker stuck here other participating wife to follow.

Dear Wife Swap Victim Swapper:
Welcome to my home. I hope you’re happy and comfortable during your stay here. But don’t get too comfortable, you’ve got a whole lot of work to do. I fully expect you to live up to your part of this deal and whip this family into shape.

I know that for the first part of your time here you’re supposed to follow my rules. But this family is challenging independent, so I’m going to try to keep the rules to a minimum because you’re going to need all the time you can get for working your own magic. The last few are rules, but let’s start with some helpful recommendations:

*If you want to eat anything while you’re here, I recommend you hide it. Really well.
*Same with car keys. If you want to go anywhere you’ll need to hide those as well.
*If the kids are out somewhere and you want to talk to them, you’ll need to text them. They are unaware of what that sound is that the phone makes and don’t know that they can actually answer it and talk to people.
*If you ask the boys to clean their rooms and they say they’re clean, I recommend you actually look. I would not recommend entering, however, even if your tetanus shots are up to date.
*You’ll save yourself a lot of aggravation if you think of the boys’ curfew like a baby’s due date. They may come early, they may come late, but the chances that they’ll come when you expect them are pretty non-existent.
 *When it comes to meals, chances are unless you’re making Pizza or Burgers they won’t like what you make. You can take it personally or not, up to you, but there it is.
*Familiarize yourself with the bar in the living room. And I've left you a recipe for an "adults only" Cosmo Poke Cake.

Cosmo Poke Cake

And now for a few actual rules:

*You’ll need to bake daily. Hordes of teenagers will descend on the house once you can smell the chocolate baking so I recommend you wear your track shoes. And a helmet.

*Be sure to take pictures of what you bake. You’ll need to write a blog post when you’re done. You’ll thank me, blogging = venting and venting = survival.

*Last rule: No swapsies backsies.

Good luck. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Cosmo Poke Cake

                              
©www.BakingInATornado.com

Printable Recipe

Ingredients:

16.25 oz Box White Cake Mix

4 eggs 

1 cup sour cream

1/2 cup water

½ cup vegetable oil   

                                             

3 oz box cranberry jello

1 cup boiling water

1/4 cup vodka

2 TBSP Triple Sec

Squirt of lime juice

1 1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2 cup orange juice

3 TBSP powdered sugar

Directions:

*Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 X 13 pan.

*Beat cake mix, eggs, sour cream ½ cup water and oil for two minutes.

*Pour into prepared pan and bake for approximately 30 minutes or until the center springs back to the touch.

*Cool completely.

*Using bottom of a wooden spoon, make approximately 40 holes in the cake. Make the holes of different depths but not all the way to the bottom of the pan.

*Stir jello and 1 cup boiling water until the jello dissolves. Stir in the vodka, triple sec and lime juice. Slowly pour over the cake allowing the holes in the cake to fill with the jello.

*Refrigerate one hour.

*Beat cream until soft peaks form. Stir in the orange juice and powdered sugar. Continue beating until firm peaks hold.

*Frost cake. Cover and store in refrigerator.