{"id":292,"date":"2009-01-05T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/01\/disaster-cake.html"},"modified":"2009-01-05T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T22:38:00","slug":"disaster-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/01\/disaster-cake.html","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a Pre-Birthday cake for Timmy. We’re going to do cake and a couple gifts tonight, mainly so Mommy gets her chance to sing “Happy Birthday” to her almost-4-year-old. Dad plans to have a few friends over for cake and ice cream closer to Timmy’s actual birthday on the 26th.
But the cake! Where do I begin??? First the icing base coat fills with crumbs, making the icing layer appear all mottled. Then the spray-on yellow square has some bleed off. Then I run out of icing before I can really finish Spongebob. I had planned to dress him, at least.
But look on the bright side: I don’t think there’s any doubt in who that is, right??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a Pre-Birthday cake for Timmy. We’re going to do cake and a couple gifts tonight, mainly so Mommy gets her chance to sing “Happy Birthday” to her almost-4-year-old. Dad plans to have a few friends over for cake and ice cream closer to Timmy’s actual birthday on the 26th.But the cake! Where do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[43,42,63,30,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-4I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":413,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/01\/happy-mickey-birthday.html","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":0},"title":"Happy Mickey Birthday!","date":"23 January 10","format":false,"excerpt":"From 2010 01 23 Timmy's Mickey Mouse 5th Birthday CakeThis is Timmy's birthday cake (duh!). Due to a series of unfortunate events, Timmy's birthday was reduced to having a friend over for cake and ice cream after dinner tonight. 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