That doesn't count the hours I spent planning, researching and shopping for supplies.
Or the time I spent tweeting the whole dang process.
When it was all said and done I felt like a pretty kick butt mom. His cakes look like Legos for goodness sake!
But, this kick butt Mom got her own kick in the gut when last night in a sobbing melt down, our new six year old informed me that it was the worst birthday ever and I surely didn't love him.
Why?
Cake aside, gifts aside, people who loved him gathered to celebrate his birthday aside, our boy considers it a major tragedy that there were no streamers.
Streamers people.
Next year he's getting a cake from the grocery store bakery.
9 comments:
Those cakes are awesome!
LOL- we had a similar meltdown with our son at his 6th bday party- after all our work...
but he doesn't remember that anymore, and I bet your son will forget about the lack of streamers too- afterall, there won't be any pictures of those ;)
Ah yes, many a child has one an emancipation trial on the basis of a lack of streamers. You horrible mommy. (kidding of course).
Try not to take the drama of a 6 yr old too seriously and we all know that you are a kick butt mom! Seriously, those cakes are amazing!
I will not laugh. I will not laugh. I will no...
No worries, all is not lost! Those AWESOME cakes will mean that your grandkids will have awesome birthday cakes some day because your future daughter in-law will see these pictures and FREAK when she has to live up to your standard even though she may have zero to no cake decorating skillz.
Not that I know what that would be like.
Ahem.
The cakes are AWESOME! You did such a fabulous job!!
Streamers? Who would have thought that could be the total downfall of a birthday.
Don't take it personally, as hard as that may be. One year Boo said hers was awful because someone didn't sing...I nearly lost it.
Oh, dear!
But let me tell you, sister, those cakes are AWESOME. : )
you're going to have to do what we do - and that is decorate a week early - BEFORE the party - and keep the decor up a week AFTER the party - so that you don't miss anything...that way - you know what is missing because you are told time and time again-
for my just turned 3 year old - it was a pinata. His sister had a pinata and surely he was going to have one too. In Decemeber - in my little house - but we made it work! Two voluteers to hold the pinata up in the living room on a broom handle!
Now you know for next time!
;(
It only takes one party meltdown to dial it down a notch, and get the bakery cake.
The cakes WERE fabulous, and you win a big mommy prize for them : )
First, I think all young kids cry on their birthday saying that it was the worst day ever. Bel did that to us, too. You know what I think it is? I think that when the party is over, they feel sad that the totally fun day is over. They don't understand the source of the sadness, and they can only associate such a sadness with a "bad day" and try to find something, anything, that would explain why it was bad. The ONLY THING your son could find "wrong" with the day was that there weren't streamers. That says a lot about how great the party was if the only additional detail your son could have asked for was streamers!
Second, can I say that you are the best, most creative mom ever?! Those cakes are amazing. I am impressed and awed and jealous of you.
I am so impressed! Those are fabulous.
But man, if that doesn't sound like my life!
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