Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
It is cake? Why yes, yes of course it is cake. HOWEVER I’m being slightly sneaky for this one and claiming a cake that I only sort of vicariously made.
Actually, that’s not true: in all technical senses of the word, I made the cake, because I did bake it, and I did ice it, and then I also made the child who decorated it so come on, that totally counts, right? O:) Hehe.
Anyway, le Smallest Person Of The House had a birthday last year, as tends to happen on an annual basis, and she was Dead Keen on decorating her own cake, and honestly given I was still full-time teaching and both my children managed to be born at times of Peak Teaching Workflow during the year (not that that doesn’t cover, like, 50% of the year on a regular basis but work with me here), I was down for anything that meant less work for me. Especially given this was very much a Decoration Party.*
* I elaborate in How To Plan A Pinterest-Worthy Party Without Dying: you prioritise EITHER the cake OR the decoration OR the food OR the activities. Kid gets to pick ONE domain for me to pour my effort into, and they take what comes with the rest of it.
Mayhaps I shall dig out some appropriately guest-less photos of the decorations for next week, because I have to say, I was gosh-darn PROUD of that party, but in the meantime you get the cake that the Sparkly Child decorated. For reference it was her sixth birthday and she did the cake entirely alone – I’d iced it the night before, I had all the decorations I’d bought for it in a bag on the kitchen bench, and when she woke up the morning of the party she decorated it all before I was out of bed for the day.
(…This is the same child who gave herself a haircut a couple of months ago (which, astute readers will realise this means she was six or barely seven at the time) in which she decided to give herself a fringe (bangs) for the first time and, like, she actually cut it in perfectly and I didn’t even have to touch it despite the fact that we had professional family photos booked a few weeks later so yes apparently I *am* breeding ultra independent hyper competent children and yes this *is* mildly terrifying to life with on a daily basis, HA. Especially since this in NO WAY implies that I have meek and compliant children, oy.**)
** They will make good adults but.***
*** I could go off on a whole separate tangent here about how the traits that society still considers optimal in children when you really get down to it do not actually make for healthy, functional, contributing adults in contemporary society – they do make for excellent factory fodder, however. But also this is a #MadeItMonday, so no tangents. Or at least, no longer tangents. #Oops.
Okay #MadeItMonday, where was I…
Right I think honestly it’s just time to show the cake, right? Here we are. (The party was chocolate + bunnies + pink themed, i.e. exactly this cake.)
Phew! Congratulations, you made it to the end. Now tell me what YOU’VE made in the last week (or month, or as in the case of this post, year-ish). <3
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