Have been up to my elbows in cake mixture for the past two days for my daughter's birthday party tomorrow. First I scoured the shops for the excellent Betty Crocker cake mix and only found a rather revolting looking alternative called 'Magic Time'. There's also no fondant icing around or anything by way of fun decorations.
Anyway - I am have been forced to fall back on my own shaky skills and once again try baking myself. By some miracle, the results (so far) have been satisfactory. Usually my fairy cakes explode and big cakes flop. My daughter wants a no 7 cake with butterflies, so this time I need the sponge to rise straight and flat...
Party bags - tick. Party games - to devise. Treasure hunt - to devise. Icing of fairy cake and birthday cake - to do. Wrapping presents - to do. Lunch for 20 little girls - to do. Beers - to buy.
What am I doing blogging. The trials and tribulations of housewifedom! It's my husband's fortieth in Feb - there's no help for me!
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So cool that u actually get involved this much in their birthdays, when i was 9, my mum asked my father on our drive home from school if he was not doing anything for my birthday (it was the next day), he stopped at the small filling station supermarket in spring valley, got a bunch of biscuits and all the riff raff that goes with that, came back to the car and said, "thats your last birthday celebration. You are a big man now" everytime i drive past there i just say, thats where my birthday's died. Later i was to realize that in our culture, men are not expected to celebrate birthdays, its a girls thing. on th eflip side, im still 9 (not 27) yipeee "tukaibe mapera" ask your house help what that means to a 9 year old kenyan boy.
ReplyDeleteAs a parent, I think that I must be mad - and after the party, exhausted, did say to the birthday girl 'that's the last big party I'm doing' which was mean of me, particularly as she's only 7!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I go 'tukaibe mapera' explained to me by Florence!