Tinfoil Chef

Birthdays are one of those family celebration things where you know ahead of time that there’s going to be at the very least a cake, loaded down with frosting & goodies. However when three birthdays happen at once, complete with a cake and several cupcakes for each person at the same time, you almost want to arrive packing a toothbrush & toothpaste, some mouthwash and some acne treatment.

That was kinda how it felt in our family recently. Mind you, the birthday celebrations themselves were great. We’d had a much worse time than usual getting schedules coordinated and ended up celebrating three birthdays at once that ordinarily would have been spread out over a couple of months.

The big day finally arrives and everybody is in one place at the same time, gifts are first stacked up and then we made the usual big deal about opening them. (It’s only right really, a person deserves to be special on their birthday, even if it is celebrated late.) Then sometime afterward, out comes the cake.

There were one for each birthday being celebrated. My wife’s was chocolate, my brother’s was lemon and my mother in-law’s was red velvet. Each cake was also accompanied by several cupcakes that were the same kind as the cakes.

It’s funny actually, time was I used to be known as something of a sugar fiend, anxiously scarfing up anything loaded with sugar and icing. I still love it but now there’s times when it makes my teeth ache or that I spend an hour or more getting the super sweet taste out of my mouth.

Be that as it may, I still wouldn’t have it any other way. Even when three (or more!?!?) birthdays get packed into one day.

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