Tasmiya

One of the most tiresome storylines in soaps would have to be the pregnant one.  And the events are always recycled hash from other soaps. Pick one or more of the following and you have instant story:

1. Pregnant woman doesn’t know who the father is

2. Pregnant woman falls down (and she always falls down stairs – what is with that?) and risks losing her baby

3. Woman cannot fall pregnant/deals with infertility in one episode/begins IVF or adoption or surrogacy

4. In the case of IVF – it works the first time

5. In the case of adoption – parents struggle to find perfect birth mother/ birth mother fights for custody after adoptive parents finally get baby

6. When baby is finally born, no mention will be made of him/her ever again

Today my youngest child turned 4. We had a little get-together with the family yesterday afternoon (seeing as today is a weekday and everyone is busy with school/homework/work etc). While his birthday cake was not difficult to make, it was nevertheless time consuming but am so glad the colours worked out  (I can imagine it would be a wonderful “coming out” cake.) The instructions are here – I didn’t actually follow the same recipe, just the general idea – I used one my old, trusted plain cake recipes. The colours on the original are spectacular but it looks as though there is more icing than cake!)

4 year old: So it’s my birthday today?

Tasmiya: Yep! You are 4 years old!

4 year old: So, what cake are you making for me?

Tasmiya: That rainbow cake I made for you yesterday, that’s your birthday cake.

4 year old: But. But. Today is my BIRTHDAY and you have to make me a BIRTHDAY cake.

Tasmiya: *sigh* but that cake was so yum and nice and everyone came to say, “Happy Birthday!” yesterday, remember?

4 year old: I wanted cupcakes today.

Tasmiya: Well, I can’t make them right now, it’s close to bed time.

4 year old: That’s ok. You can make them when you wake up tomorrow. I want them pink.

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Looks like an early start for me tomorrow.