Decorating Cakes

Summer brings many birthdays for our family and that got me thinking about all the cakes I have made over the years. I share these because of the story behind them and what I have learned. 

I don't throw friend parties for my kids until they are 4....only because that is what I did with the oldest and it was nice to just stick with that age. The night before throwing my first ever friend party for my oldest child, my baby was up all night and I got 2 hours of sleep. Broken sleep. I was a mess. And I still had to decorate a dinosaur cake and throw a party. I immediately crashed after this party. 

The next year I talked up the idea of cupcakes with gummy dinosaurs on them. Super cool!

With a 3-week-old baby, this saved me. 

Just ditched the whole "pinterest mom" thing here.

More crazy fun planning and decorating this year. 

When the kid asks for something super simple, jump on that band wagon. It's way better than feeling like death during the party. These years were super simple. 

When my child asked to decorate this pink cake AND let her little sister help her, I left them take care of things. There is no way I would have done that for the first year of parties. 

I have come a long way from that first party I threw where I was dragging on 2 hours to be able to decorate a cake that looked good to me and that I personally had spent time on. 

While I am talking about cakes in this post, think about all those things in your life that you believed had to be perfect or done a certain way. Perhaps you can figuratively let your children decorate a cake and just let it go.

What can you be okay with letting go or completing without it being "perfect"?