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Baking
By Tessa Dean May 2024
Jeanie had her seven-year-old twin girls, Sandy and Mandy, perched on stools at the counter where the baking supplies were laid out. Jeanie recently took a cake decorating class and promised the girls they would bake and decorate a birthday cake. Unfortunately, they couldn’t agree on a cake. They each had their own favorites. Jeanie told them ordering a cake at the local bakery would be easier She was fed up with the fighting.
The girls stopped bickering and said they wanted a princess cake. Jeanie said that was fine, and that they could each choose their favorite dress color.
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Tessa –
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I think that princess cake will end up with half one color and half another color dress. Do you know about Kindle Vella? You could post your memoir little by little at Kindle Vella and maybe get paid (little by little!). I’ve just started a story on the platform.
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Thank you! I am sure the princess dresses will be two different colors. I heard of Kindle Vella. I am not publishing anything due to financial reasons. I can’t add to my income or I might lose my benefits. But I was going to post it on my blog by chapter but I would end up upsetting the family because the first one I wrote was all nice, but the real life story is not so nice and it would cause a lot of problems if I publish it. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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At least they agreed on something. Now the mother knows how to make them agree on everything 🙂
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Yes the threat of not having a cake they designed at all made them agree to something at least.
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I gasped at the end. Allowing the twins a choice after their bickering about the cake should have been a lesson learned.
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She was used to the constant bickering and sometimes you have to pick your battles.
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I think I would have been tempted to tell them, “Okay, better luck next year on getting ANY kind of birthday cake.” Well, maybe I wouldn’t have gone to that extreme 🙂
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LOL! That’s kids for you.
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Nice story. She found a way to keep them happy – I think. There could be trouble over how to combine the two dress colours, though.
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I just figure there were two princesses therefore having two dress colors would work.
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A clever mum. And why shouldn’t the cake have two colours, they can call it zebra cake.
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Thank you! I like it-zebra cake.
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It was ever thus. Compromise is everything.
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Dear Tessa,
I hope choosing a color isn’t as painful as agreeing on the cake itself. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I think at that age anything is painful. LOL!!
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