{"id":1504,"date":"2006-09-18T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2006-09-18T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T11:57:00","slug":"happy-birthday-mr-tvini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Mr. Tvini!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was my husband’s birthday, and it was a good one.
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I went with my daughter last week to pick out some pajamas for my husband, which she had decided he needed since he doesn’t have any. This was remarkable because it’s the first time she’s picked something remotely appropriate out that HE might want, as opposed to, say, play-dough. So of course she made a beeline for the most freaking expensive set of pajamas on the floor. I pointed out some other nice ones, but when she stuck to her guns and said that only these would do, I gritted my teeth and sprang for them. Looking for pics just now, I saw similar but not identical items on eBay for half the price. Le sigh.<\/p>\n

Gotta say, though, the Perry Ellis pajamas are incredibly soft, fit great, and my husband looks fabulous in them. I guess my girl knows quality when she sees it.
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\nOn his birthday, I sent Emily in to ask what kind of cake he wanted. I knew he wanted carrot cake, it’s his favorite. I make it every year, grating six cups of carrots and mixing colors into the cream cheese frosting so that I can pipe little carrots around the edges and write “Happy Birthday” on it. I could hear the conversation, which went like this:<\/p>\n

“Daddy, what kind of cake do you want?”
\n“Well, I really like carrot cake, but I know that takes a long time to make. I also like chocolate cake…”<\/i>
\n“Yes! Let’s do that.”
\n“Okay, go tell your mother.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“Daddy says he wants chocolate cake. He doesn’t like carrot cake.”<\/p>\n

That, ladies and gents, is a good husband and father. He knew I had a lot of in-game stuff going on, although I was perfectly willing to let it go for his birthday. And he knew Emily didn’t like carrot cake. So it was all about the other people in his life. What a guy!<\/p>\n

So Emily and I went to the store to get some cake mix and frosting. She helped make the cake. I couldn’t find my big pans, so the cake layers turned out a little less wide and more tall. Because she’s a very eager little girl, we didn’t let the cake cool as completely as we might. I slapped some frosting on there, which didn’t set up as well as I’d like. So we quickly did the candles and I cut the cake.<\/p>\n

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As I turned back from serving the cake, I saw the layers separating and sliding away. It was like Pangaea breaking up. Me: “Little help? Little help? Little help??<\/i><\/b>” My husband helped, but saw that there was no stopping the sliding of the cake from the plate. So he turned into MacGyver. He jammed two chopsticks into the two largest cakey continental shelves. The third shelf is shoved under the top two in an effort to shore them up.
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I nearly died laughing. Many jokes ensued about how we should get some kind of lever and pulley system to make it work. Then the cake split along a fault line and started sliding again, so we had to add a third chopstick. This time, we contemplated using flying buttresses to shore it up. Then it started to move again and the hubby shouted, “The substrate’s unstable! Shore it up!” and we had to add a fourth chopstick.
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So now, the Sputnik cake is in our fridge, which has solidified the frosting nicely. I still ain’t taking out the chopsticks, though, lest we have another mudslide.<\/p>\n

This is easily the worst-looking cake I’ve ever made, but as my mother would say, “It’ll taste the same.”<\/p>\n

We spent the evening lounging in our pajamas and watching our new DVDs of season 3 of Arrested Development. Good times, good times.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t read this blog, but I’ll say it anyway – happy birthday, sweetie!
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