Monday, February 25, 2008

I Let My Little Man Down...



Tonight was the Boy Scouts Blue and Gold Banquet. I guess it is a birthday party for the origination of Scouts. The boys and their dads were suppose to make and decorate a cake(with a boy scout theme) that would then be auctioned off benefiting the boy scout program. I have to admit, we usually can be pretty creative in this area. I have made a cake that was a fish, a baseball, a dump truck, an army tank and a few other things. Well, since we didn't roll into town until late yesterday afternoon, I told Tim that I would just bake a cake and they could decorate it as soon as he got home from work. So, I start baking the cake (a 2 layer chocolate cake). I've done this a million times. I don't know what in the world happened but, I couldn't get the cake out of the pan. I greased and floured the pan as always. But, the cake wouldn't come out of the pan. Okay, after lots of work, I did manage to get it out of the pan and piece it back together. I surely can do some sort of patch job with the icing, right?!? The next layer was worse... Tim got home. I said, this thing starts at 7:00 right! He said, let me call the leader and double check. It was 5:15, maybe 5:20 . "It starts at 7:00 right? No, it is at 6:00" So, I whip up a cake mix that I happened to have in the cabinet, run take a shower, come back and mix up a second batch of icing, finish getting ready, pull the cake out of the oven, take it outside to cool (thank you Lord for the extreme temp. drop this afternoon), give it a whopping 3 minutes to cool, throw the cake on the cardboard, ice the cake - still warm and use the chocolate frosting to make a tiger cub paw print on top, run out the door at 6:06pm. So, we are late but, we made it! We walk in and Kadyn immediately stops talking and tears well up in his eyes. I ask him over and over what was wrong. Finally he tells me that he doesn't like his cake. I have to tell you I didn't realize that it was a competition and the competition was pretty tough. The winning cake was an entire camping scene complete with a log cabin made of pretzels. Kadyn is so much like me. He doesn't like to disappoint. To top it all off, I didn't let him buy his cake back in the auction. Several of the kids bought their own cakes back but, after having a birthday cake and a flopped cake to greet us once we arrived home, the thought of another cake was enough to make me puke!! What a night! He did get a ribbon for "trying his best". So, I have to make it up to him somehow. Did I mention how much we love boy scouts (can you sense the sarcasm). I know it is a great program but, well I better not say anymore!

1 comments:

kcaimee said...

It's important that our kids experience disappointment once in a while or else they won't be prepared for the real world. Great job keeping it real Brandi!