Aaahhh.. and now we relax

Offspring #2 had her birthday party today. She turns one on Wednesday so we just had a little party lunch and she even managed to stay awake for the whole thing. She slept for two and a half hours afterwards though! As usual, I overcatered in the biggest way. We had 14 coming and I made enough to feed at least 3 times that. I know that party leftovers are yummy and a treat for dinner the night of the party but I think we'll be eating these for the next three days. At least I don't have to worry about Father's Day lunch tomorrow and by dinner time I think we'll all be wanting some vegetables. I was so pleased with how the birthday cake turned out, it was very simple but I was proud of it.

Hmmm, now that I'm looking at the photo I can see the bottom of the 1 is a bit crooked but hey, numbers have never been my thing! I could try to console myself by saying that I take rotten photos and it must be the angle but I think we all know the truth here. When Offspring #1 turned one he had the same thing in blue but I sweated buckets over it and in the end made Hubby do the cutting in case I messed it up. Do you think I should have done that again? LOL Regardless, everyone enjoyed it - it's the only thing with no leftovers - and I even let the birthday girl have a piece. I am relaxing my parenting standards - there is no way that Offspring #1 was allowed to have a cake with all that sugar and icing and rubbish in it at his first birthday LOL. Okay, I admit that we cut the icing off today's piece but she liked the cake part. I'm relaxing not becoming comatose!

Here we are just before singing Happy Birthday. Daddy though that combing her hair into a mowhawk would be good for the photos - and since her hair does this naturally he knew how hard I had worked to get it to sit flat. To say I was unimpressed would be an understatement but short of dunking the child's head under the tap that hair wasn't moving so I gave up.

Well, dishes are done, house is tidied, and the floor is swept so I'm heading off to bed. The morning comes way too soon sometimes and this has been a busy day.

Question of the day: What's the craziest, hardest or just plain stupidest birthday cake you have tried to make?