Okay, I’m caving in. It’s no good. It appears that a lovely squidgy homemade cake, even shaped like a butterfly and covered in sweeties (okay, I was going to sneak in some berries as well!) just won’t cut the mustard in comparison to a neon-icing’d Disney princess’d monstrosity from the supermarket! And so I am going to give my daughter what she really, really wants. A bright pink £14.99 lump of sugar, decorated with plastic. Hey ho.
The sensible part of me says it would probably cost that much to make a decent cake, quite apart from the time I’d spend doing it … and time is money, or so they say! Debatable when you are either a stay-at-home mum who gets paid precisely nothing or a fledgling entrepreneur with a business that’s making precisely nothing, but I get the general principle! The sensible part of me says that it’s only once a year, each child will only eat a tiny bit so they won’t get that much of a sugar hit … and they can just brush their teeth extra well afterwards. The sensible part of me says I’ve got quite enough to do anyway, so actually it’s a bit of a relief not to have to make a cake as well.
Except there’s this other part of me that says “but I want you to have my cake that I’ve spent hours crafting especially for you because that’s how much I love you!” But I guess this is one of those occasions where I get to live the meaning of love, which is doing something you don’t want to do to make someone else happy! Yes, that’s it, love is … a great big bright pink Barbie cake!
Tags: Barbie, cakes, Disney princesses, entrepreneur, love, stay-at-home mum, sugar hit, teeth brushing
