When did you learn that not everything works out the way you want it to?

I remember the time I learned that not everything works out the way you want it to. It all started when in November around Thanksgiving. All of the family was going to celebrate my grandfathers birthday. This year I decided that I wanted to make the cake. My grandfather told me that he wanted 1-2-3-4 cake and grandma Schaeffer’s special chocolate frosting. I envisioned a 2 layer cake covered with chocolate frosting and “ Happy Birthday Poppy!” in green on top.

I started out by making the 2 cakes. After I baked them, I let them cool. When they had cooled I tried and tried to take them out of the pans but were stuck to the bottom. Finally they came loose but some parts were in pieces. I put them in the fridge so that they would be ready to decorate in the morning.

The next morning I went to get the cake out of the fridge to let it warm up while I started grandma Schaeffer’s special chocolate frosting. I put a pan on the stove melted the chocolate and put in the rest of the ingredients. Next I put the 2 layers of cake together with frosting in the middle. After that I started the frosting all over the cake but it cooled so fast that almost half the cake wasn’t covered! I tried to pipe the letters in the green icing but some came out crooked and messy.

In the end the cake did not look very good but it did taste good! That’s the story of the time I learned that not everything works out the way you want it to.