Cake Decorating
by Sherra on September 23, 2009
in Finding the Funny, Food
Before I do the big reveal of the decorated birthday cake…
I need to share a little story about what happened yesterday which was my actual birthday.
Since school was canceled for the 2nd day in a row because of the raining and flooding in Georgia, Scary Baby was home and had plenty of time for cake decorating.
I was glad she wanted to do this. Falls under crafty homemaking project that required no supervision. My kind of activity.
I go downstairs to see the finished creation. She has a neighbor friend over and when she hears me coming, she leaps to her feet trying to become invisible near a wall in the family room. I round the corner and say:
“What are you doing?”
She stands with a small plate and fork in her hand (in the family room where she’s not suppose to be eating…this is a recording) with what definitely looks like birthday cake.
Yes, that’s right. Scary Baby has served up the decorated birthday cake in the middle of the afternoon.
This is a new twist on “Birthday Surprise.”
I tell her I really can’t believe she is eating the cake before her dad and brother get home. We typically have cake after dinner with the family.
She indignantly replied:
I didn’t have the first piece! There was already a piece gone!
PhilBillPaul had iced the cake just before midnight. I was sure he didn’t have a piece before she got to decorate it.
I moved on. It was one of those “pick your battles” moments.
I pulled the cake from the fridge (chocolate cream cheese frosting) and praised her lovely decorating skills and told her I loved it.
Which I did. Especially the cinnamon red hots. An unusual personal touch.
I also love her diamond pattern she had planned out on graph paper. And the fact she used my first name.
Later, I used my finely honed detective parenting skills, I found out that it was her darling brother who had a small piece in the middle of the night. His explanation…
He saw it. He was hungry. He didn’t know it was a birthday cake.
This is the life of a mom and low key birthdays.
One year ago..
Happy Birthday!!! Hope it was great and loved your birthday cake story!!!
Love Shay
ROFL! And DANG it! I had two reminders and STILL forgot to call you yesterday! Happy belated birthday honey. We really do need to do lunch!
Hope you had a great Birthday, Sherra! Your post is often the first e-mail that shows up in the AM. Seeing that cake with a piece out of it just made me LOL and I believe it’s great to start the day out laughing! And anyone with a teenage boy can relate to your son’s reply-TYPICAL!
If all four kids were home they could have each had a corner! Now that would have been a sight! Maybe they’ll respect you @ 50, though it will take another 21 years to get there (you’re 29, right? It just feels older.).
Thank you all for kind birthday wishes. One week delay in responding because I’m still recovering from being OLD. Okay, maybe I’m old and slow…and forgetful.