<p>Our wonderful general contractor started demolition on our kitchen two days before Thanksgiving. He estimated things would be done at the end of January. Not total babes in the woods, we figured the end of February/beginning of March was more realistic. And I joked, “Oh, as long as I can bake S2’s birthday cake in the new oven, everything will be fine.”</p>
<p>S2 turns six today.</p>
<p>The outlets aren’t finished, the lights aren’t finished, the valance over the sink isn’t finished, the drawers and cabinets have no pulls/knobs . . . but the cake is in the oven! Cross your fingers, please. :D</p>
<p>Awwwh. Have them crossed. We did this when youngest was 2-3 mos old. It was combined with an addition and moving the kitchen. We celebrated her 1st birthday with a sink and a microwave, and nothing else. In total it took a year from start to finiish. It was worth it.</p>
<p>I always loved baking cakes, and my girls remember the barbie cakes (with the dome cake as the dress), teddy bear cakes, dinosaur cakes, unicorn cakes. I was a working mom who felt less guilty making all the birthday cakes. That year it was “store-bought.” </p>
<p>Have fun. Mine are 16 and nearly 18. Your gonna miss this. Your gonna want this back… (thanks to Trace Adkins).</p>
<p>Aw. we have a late stage baby in our community with two teen big siblings. That baby’s feet haven’t hit the ground yet, and he’s 4 years old. Everyone just carries him around. The teens have all the fun and date-bait of having a kid to dote on, yet can hand them back to the mom whenever the phone rings for them. Kind of perfect all the way around. A much loved little kid. Sounds like yours has figured out if he can walk, yet, and will run over to that yummy cake soon.</p>
<p>Many eons ago when we did our kitchen I remember our contractor said three weeks, when it was closer to three months. I’m remember the day they hooked up the dishwasher (still had no floor). We turned it on and water poured out of the thing! Ack. Turned out not to be his fault the thing arrived cracked. </p>
<p>P3T, you’ve pegged S2 pretty well . . . and siblings’ use of him as date bait, too. :)</p>
<p>Thanks, everybody. The collective kindness and good will of CC has helped to produce a fine cake! It’s a little wobbly. I’ll have to use extra frosting as spackle. Isn’t that awful?</p>
<p>I will bring the frosting bowl, beaters, and spatula back to share shortly. No fighting! There will be plenty.</p>
<p>(Mathmom, yikes. I was already afraid to use the new dishwasher. Paper plates for cake.)</p>
<p>Okay, I’m putting out ice-cold milk, the beaters (actually I guess it’s just one beater), the spatula, and the mixing bowl. There’s plenty to go around; I never manage to make just the right amount. </p>
<p>The cake turned out just fine, and the frosting spackle hides most of its imperfections. I finished it with exactly three minutes to go before the bus brought S2 home. I have to say, sunnyflorida, that I’d love to be able to make beautiful, creative cakes, but frankly my cakes almost always end up looking much more like Jabba the Hutt than any other character. Oh, well; they taste pretty good.</p>
<p>Actually, we never make the frosting/spackle joke in S2’s hearing, because he knows I refer to makeup (on those fairly infrequent occasions when I wear more than tinted moisturizer) as spackle. Maybe I should just use frosting instead.</p>
S1 is 16 and D is 19.</p>
Maybe I should just use frosting instead.</p>