“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal
into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our
past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
~Melody Beattie
In the name of gratitude and truthfulness I’ve decided to post a little piece of reality here once a week. Likely just a single picture. See my original post here.
Sometimes I’m a doofus. Sometimes it’s more often than sometimes. Usually I can laugh about it. See that paper where the piece of cake is missing? Well I baked those two round cakes dutifully on parchment paper. I painstakingly sliced off the top of the bottom cake with my fun little tool. I made a buttercream border and filled it with last summer’s raspberry jam. I plopped on the second cake and iced it with the requested yellow tinted buttercream. Not until I started serving it, after the song was sung and the candles extinguished (with the reminder that sparklers make a nice mess of the top of a cake), did I realize. I hadn’t removed the second round of parchment. Geez.
The adults laughed and laughed. The kids wondered. Then I somewhat tore that cake apart pulling out the paper….
And here is a terribly unflattering photo of me as we laughed it up.
Oh, I’m thankful for laughter. And good friends to laugh with. And my sweet husband who finds my silly antics endearing.
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If you’d like to join in with a reality check of your own, please add a link or note in the comments!
I love it Rachel!! So wish your mother and I could have been there to share the celebration and the laughter!! Blessings!!
That is completely something I would do. In addition I would be so very proud of how beautiful the cake looks only to discover the goof. It is good to laugh!
You, dear Rachel, are beautiful! I loved this post as I think most of us have done something similar so we can relate. I once baked a chicken with the little parts bag still tucked in his tail end, baked a frozen pizza on cardboard and baked a cake mix without adding the oil. I really do better with home grown, from scratch food!
You look so happy! I have done some silly things in the kitchen myself. Better to laugh than cry.
First of all, you have a beautiful smile. Second of all, don’t feel bad. I do stuff like that all the time. You just have to laugh.
Umm…that photo of you is not at all unflattering. You have a great smile.
That so sounds like something I would have done. I’m sure the cake tasted great.
What a sweet story to remember and laugh at again as more birthdays roll around. We can all relate in one way or another.
Lovely photo! So good to have a laugh about it all.
oh GOOD., glad I’m not the only one!
sweet photo!
XO
C
Funny funny. I’ve done things like that…welcome to the ‘doofus’ club 🙂
Oh and p.s. – you look pretty nice in that candid shot to me. I think I have that same teal colored top.
Ha! This sounds like something I would do. It’s so good to be able to laugh at it!
Isn’t today the day you get your new keys?….Congratulations!
What a funny story! And picture of you is simply gorgeous, so natural and real!
Aww I love that shot of you sis!
Oh Dear! My 3 year old’s birthday cake was one for the records too!
The first pan broke just as I was to put it in the oven. Plan B- cupcakes. But I forgot about them as our guests arrived. They were SO hard – like cookie crispy! My husband turned them upside down and put whip cream on them while I just laughed! And then the actual cake turned out to be a brownie texture. Ugh! On top of all that we were still recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning. I’m just so glad to be alive!