Happy Birthday Evan

Evan is also doing this Summer of Seals challenge. He is trying to shed some pounds and eating a lower carb diet. I'm not so good at that. I like my pasta and rice and love to make bread sticks. But I am still a nursing mom with a lot of growing children who need the carbs.

Or have I just convinced myself of that so I can continue with my unhealthy diet?

I have tried to prepare meals that are helpful to his goal. I still have the carbs but give him other things to choose from.

So what do you do for a low carb eater's birthday cake?

I googled "healthy birthday cake" and found a recipe. I asked evan about it and he said he would like that type of cake. It was a spice cake made with molasses and sugar free. It had wheat flour and apple sauce so no fat or sugar. I gave evan the option of a cheese cake and he said he would like the spice cake.

So I did. I thought the recipe called for a little too much cloves. But what do I know. I usually make cakes from a box. I'm sure whomever wrote the recipe knew exactly what they were doing. Right?

Not even close.



I also made cream cheese frosting using fat free cream cheese. Bad idea. That stuff was so runny and really didn't taste good.

Just decorate the cake and the taste won't matter. At least that was what I was hoping. I put a lot of effort into this cake, about as much as I put into the carefully decorated birthday. Ames for my children. I wanted this one to be special and one that evan could eat and would make him happy.

Well, evan blew out the candles and served us all up. I think each kid took one bite and suddenly decided they were full. Nobody finished their cake. Evan took a bite and said to me, "is this some kind of joke?"



Didn't do too well there. I guess the good part was that I was almost uncontrollably laughing the while time. No wonder evan questioned it being a joke.

It wasn't. I really did try. I wanted to make him a cake that he could eat. I think he got a good laugh. The kids enjoyed helping me decorate it.



And we did take lunch with store bought cupcakes and a bunch of balloons to evan at work. The kids were so excited. Evan was one special guy because he got Chipotle and nobody else did.


We tried to make his day special. Taneal was sure Evan wanted a fan to put in the garage for when he works out there. She was excited to watch him open it. We were wise and stapled the receipt onto the fan box just in case we bought the wrong kind. We don't know anything about boy fans. The other children had fun giving him his favorite candy, hot tamales.

Hopefully he had a special day.

Happy 38th birthday!


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