1. Tell us about your favorite cake.
I celebrate my half birthday in June.
Long story short: I was born the day after Christmas, my Mom wanted to make life easier for all of us, we’ve always celebrated it in June and it doesn’t even matter now because I’m old and we don’t celebrate old peoples birthdays…let alone their half birthdays.
At least that’s what I tell myself now considering my half birthday this year was spent dilly-dallying around the house while Pat was in Hawaii and my kids filled their social calendar.
But this isn’t about that.
This is about strawberries and how one summer my mom asked me what my very favorite kind of cake was and I told her it was Strawberry Shortcake with this in mind:
But what she interpreted looked a whole lot more like this:
It’s not that I didn’t LIKE regular strawberry shortcake, it’s just that if I couldn’t have THE Strawberry Shortcake than I’d really just have opted for chocolate. Mom’s yellow cake with the chocolate frosting is my favorite!
After a few birthdays went by I realized my Mom was never actually going to make me a real Strawberry Shortcake and by that point she was so convinced her strawberry shortcake was my VERY favorite that I didn’t have the heart to ask for anything different.
I recently told my Mom the Strawberry Shortcake truth. She was shocked, “You mean after all these years?? Strawberry shortcake is NOT your favorite??” She struggled to wrap her mind around this epiphany. And then she laughed and she laughed and she laughed.
I’m so glad my anguish could cause her such joy. At least I was able to take my expertise on strawberry shortcake after years of eating it and build the best 4th of July trifle ever.
But I will never stop holding out hope that one of these years I will find a REAL Strawberry Shortcake cake waiting for me on the morn of my half birthday…if anyone decides to remember it.
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1. Tell us about your favorite cake.
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Madison says
That is hilarious! If I lived near you, I would bring you THE Strawberry Shortcake cake!