I Feel Like The Worst Mom In The World!
Decorating By berryblondeboys Updated 23 Apr 2007 , 2:07pm by summernoelle
My little boy is turning two years old tomorrow. I have planned on making a blues clues cake for about a month and I was going to even try a new technique - chocolate transfer. I even practiced, but it is now 11:20 pm, he has JUST fallen asleep and I've been up since 5:45 am....
My older son had to go to a camp today, so we had to get up early. My little guy actually woke up on his own, but I think he wanted to go back to sleep. Later, he fell asleep in the car for 15 minutes and I tried to get him inside without waking him, but didn't succeed. I tried for an HOUR for his nap.
Well, since it's such a nice day, we decided to take a walk in an outdoor mall... we walked for 1.5 hours trying to get the little guy to sleep before we succeeded and then walked for 2 hours while he slept. He slept until 5:30 pm...
Well, he has been a crank ALLLLLLLL day long and was obviously still tired, so I tried to get him to sleep from 9 pm until 11:15 pm... and I even let him cry alone in his bed for 15 minutes because I was ready to blow a gasket. My ENTIRE day has been trying to get him to sleep or dealing with his sleepy self because he couldn't sleep. Of course, that screaming then made him very upset and now he was clinging to me and didn't let me leave the room...
I am EXHAUSTED!!! I have no cake made, no decorations made. I have a frozen cake in the freezer... and at 10 pm I thought I would just go with that, but now that it's 11:30 and I have to teach sunday school tomorrow too and I haven't prepared for that yet... WHEN am I supposed to make this #%$ birthday cake... and right now I want to do ANYTHING but make a cake for a kid that's been making my life miserable today!!!
i'm seriously thinking of not making his cake!!! How bad is that?!?!?
Melissa
Cupcakes bake and cool alot faster than a cake does. You can make a cupcake cake and decorate it how you were thinking to do the cake.
Please don't be so hard on yourself. When he is older he will never remember that he got a supermarket (or whatever) cake for his second birthday. I know you will though, I still think about my oldest son's 7th birthday (6 years ago now - that I didn't make him a cake because I caught him with toys that weren't his in his schoolbag 
It sounds like you've spent the whole day focussed on his needs. Focus on that, and go to bed yourself. I'm sure he would prefer having a happy, well rested mummy that will not blow a gasket at his party because she's been burning the candles at both ends!
well, the cake isn't an issue as I have one frozen in the freezer, but making several chocolate transfers is! I'm going to bed... I'll try tomorrow.
Melissa
DH just got home and he said just not to make any decorations.. that just made me cry....
but then I thought, "Melissa, what does Henry really need? A cake? or his mom's attention?" Obviously, he's needed me today (and yesterday was a bad day too).
OK... a few tears took away some of the stress and now I'm really going to bed.
Melissa
sleep well. And don't stress, it will all work out fine! Oh and by the way it's nice to spot someone who shares my birthday 
God Bless you and your son. He needed you and you were there. I don't think he will remember his birthday for having a "bad" mom who forgot his cake. But one that his mom was there for him. Go to sleep and get some much needed sleep. He will be up soon enough. And ejoy his day with him. No regrets.
I completely understand what you are going through as my daughter turned 2 last month and has been giving me nap issues the past 2 days that I feel like I am going to lose my mind!! But don't beat yourself up...I think the toy ideas are great and stop at a Michaels or something on your way home tommorrow and see if they have anything Blues clues...they do at the one by me.
I am sure he will ove his cake as long as you make his birthday a special one!! Lots of hugs go out to you!! And happy birthday to your son!!
Melissa,
I didn't make my son's birthday cake last year in November...when he turned 5,I worked on him to let go of his thumb sucking habit, but he didn't wanted to co operate even though when I told him, if you stop sucking your thumb I will make you a "Woody-Toy story" cake and if you dont then NO CAKE!!!
we ended up having a store bought cheese cake as we celebrated my husband's and my son's birthday together and he told all the guests why he didn't get a cake this year... he still remembers it but tells me that he is not mad at me at all....cause he KNOWS that I love him no matter what!
Kids are smart...they know when we are cranky and they dont hate us for this.My son doesn't ...he and I kinda grew up together...I was 20 when I got married and had him before my 21st birthday...he knows when I am sad,happy,cranky, depressed and loves to make cakes with me...
dont be too hard on yourself! your son loves you no matter how cranky you get!!! You are a good mom. I hope you understand what I am trying to say through this post.. sometimes it is very difficult to convey a message through a language that's not my mother tongue,but I hope you understand.
Hope you have a great week ahead of you.
love
honeyscakes.
If you still want to make the chocolate transfer make just one big one for the middle and put some puppy prints on there. Take a look at the one I did in my pics. It is one of my first cakes. It might be a littlte less of the work. Just and Idea.
That's what I'm thinking of doing... I got up early, so we'll see how it goes. Right now I'm still a zombie and who knows how long the sleepless wonder will sleep!
Melissa
ETA: I finished Blue and Tickety for the top. I am defrosting the cake in the freezer and I'll make some IMBC (as my European spouse and MIL hate American BC)... I had a bunch of egg whites frozen in the freezer and they are defrosting too (they are organic and pasteurized). Now I think I'll make a bunch of paw prints for the rest of the cake.
On top I'm going to say, "Need a clue Blue? Tickety says Henry is turning 2!" I made sure that the clock is approaching two (if I made it two for real, he would lose his eyes! LOL and that's usually the time he shows anyway!)
Also have to say that I like chocolate transfers a LOT more than FBCT so far anyway! LOL
we all have those days with our little one or ones. the thing is as said in a previous thread you were there for him trying to comfort him...that doesnt make a bad mummy at all. 
I agree too that he wont care about the cake being a store bought. to kids cake is cake.
Well, I got it all done, but guess what???? No one liked the IMBC!!! I like it better than the American buttercream, but now it tastes like butter instead of tasting like pure sugar... UGH!!! I made a LOT too as I had a gazillion egg whites left over from an Easter bread! So, we dont' like American frosting, we don't like IMBC, what next to try??? I'll post that elsewhere too!
here's the finished product:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_431893.html
BTW... as soon as I uploaded this, I realized I misspelled Tickity, so I fixed it on the cake without any evidence of the mistake! LOL
Melissa
I wanted to say that henry didn't even eat a single bite of cake. Our record isn't too good! LOL
Last year, when he was turning one, he still wasn't eating much for solids - like almost ANYTHING... so, he wouldn't try it.
This year, he was ALL excited about cake and LOVED the candles, but when I went to put a piece in his mouth, he vomited!!! NO JOKE and then he freaked out at vomiting, and then the next wave came up.
He has been SOOOO out of sorts these last few days and I 'still' think it's his teeth, but he burped, a little came up and then the WHOLE dinner followed...
So, two years in a row and STILL he hasn't eaten his birthday cake - and I was upset with myself for not getting his cake done last night - guess I shouldn't have worried - MIL and DS hated the icing on the cake, birthday boy barfed before taking a bite and well... what a day! LOL
Melissa
You made a great job, he must have loved it. I hope you enjoyed your day too and didn't work too hard or try and do too much! Give yourself a big pat on the back from me will you? 
I hope your little guy starts feeling better. My littlest one will be two in July. The cake turned out really cute.
i agree with joanne, he was probably fussy because he may not have been feeling well.
if you dont like bc or imbc, try whipped milk chocolate ganache. never met a person who didnt devour it. or another nice one is the whipped cream- cream cheese icing here: http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-901-Whipped-Cream-Frosting.html
neither one of these crust, but they are so yummy and you didnt seem to have a problem with smoothing the imbc so....
cute transfers by the way.
My *almost* 2-year-old seems to get fussy on baking days lately. I think he gets jealous of me being in the kitchen and not visiting with him so much. I understand how you were feeling!
but hey, the cake did end up turning out wonderful. I'm sorry he got sick on his birthday though. What a bummer
Just another mom who understands! My son didn't sleep through the night entirely until he was 4! He gave up naps fairly early, but would always sit with me on the couch and watch TV if momma needed a nap!
I can't wait to get a full night's sleep. Adrian (my older who is 10) didn't sleep through completely until he was 2.5 and Henry just RECENTLY went down to just waking once. Before, it was 5-7 times until he was 22.5 months and then I changed up our routine and did a modified cry it out (he never really cried - I just refused to bring him to our bed and nurse him)...
I'm SOOOOOOOOO sleepy today... counting the minutes until nap time! LOL
Melissa
You poor thing!
Anyone who has kids that age understands. It always seems that when you need them to be in a good moody is when they are cranky.
Good luck! And no, you are not a bad mother. You are human. (I should try telling myself that sometimes 
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