According to the calendar my husband's birthday was a week ago. Valentine's Day. According to me, it is today.
You see, for the fourth year in a row, someone was sick on J's birthday. There has been influenza, RSV and ear infections, and a particularly awful stomach virus. This year the sick one was me and since a 2 year old and 5 year old can not shop for gifts or bake cakes on their own, J's special day wasn't special at all.
While we may have exchanged Happy Birthday and Happy Valentine's Day pleasantries, I spent the majority of the day on the couch. While I was finally spending time outside of the bathroom, I was still quite exhausted and only starting to retain calories. We spent some time together watching parts of Season One of Bones, and it was just another sick day.
I declared a re-do. I took a family vote to postpone J's birthday by a week. Little j seconded my motion and when I asked for "ayes" little e pointed to the ones on his face to join the chorus.
The biggest part of postponing the birthday was making sure to make J a great cake. j is old enough now to be involved in that process and he let me know exactly what he wanted his Dad's cake to look like.
He and I went to the cake and candy supply store near our house yesterday so he could help me pick out everything we needed to make a cake to match his vision. He wanted to make a cake shaped just like a football with a big 37 on it. I tried to push him towards a cake that looked like a football field so that I could just frost it green, add some lines and throw some plastic players on it, but j wasn't going for that. He was very set on his ball shaped cake, and wanted to make sure it would be brown with white laces, apparently he wanted this to be accurate.
So, I baked two cakes, carved, frosted and piped so that j's vision could be realized.
One football cake with a big 37.
Combine a special cake with a special dinner for a special guy and hopefully this birthday re-do made up for last week's birthday fail.
8 comments:
Awww... even a week late he still looks happy. Hope the day was good.
PS: We just discovered Bones and now we're hooked.
I am seriously impressed. You and your crafting and now your baking, whoa girl!
Love the cake, from his grin looks as if it was worth waiting for!
WOW! That turned out fantastic! And hey, we just managed to celebrate V-Day ourselves last night and STILL haven't managed to exchange cards because someone (cough, cough, DH) can't seem to remember where he put my card. :) Glad you guys are feeling better!
Looks Great ... And I bet it tasted good too!
What a beautiful cake! I am impressed!
PS: by the way, thanks for the necklace! I love it!
CUTE!
(Now, is the "cute" a reference to the post, the cake, or your hubby?!'
I love it!! I love making cakes so special for everyone!
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