A Good Day for a Rainbow Cake

In the car on the way home from preschool today, L’il Buddy started screaming about a rainbow to the point where he was inconsolable.

The worst part of it was that neither I nor the girls had any clue what he was talking about.

“Did you make a rainbow at school today?” I asked. Nope (communicated via a furious head shake).

“Did you see a rainbow when you went to the playground?” Chatterbox asked. Nope.

“TURN AROUND MOM! TURN AROUND!” Chatterbox started yelling – “MAYBE THE RAINBOW IS BEHIND US!!”

I was tired from a day of running around all over town and we were almost late to Giggles’ ballet class.  I was so not turning around.

Thankfully Giggles stepped in (with her level-headed 6 year-old self): “Maybe he would like a rainbow cake like the one we made for [Chatterbox]‘s birthday party last summer.”

“A rainbow cake!” I said.  “That we can do – let’s make a rainbow cake tonight, ok?” The idea was met with an enthusiastic head nod and he wiped the tears from his cheeks.

Phew. A temporary moment of peace.  I cannot stand hollering when I am driving. It makes me nuts. And I was 110% certain that he would completely forget about it by the time we got home.

No dice.

As soon as he ate his last spoonful of rice, he said: “Time to make the rainbow cake now, Mom?”

Drats.

“Absolutely!” I said.

Double Drats.

I’m a big fan of not letting kids down because it’s their endless hope and dreams that make children magical. And so a rainbow cake was in the works.  I found a box of Red Velvet cake mix in the pantry (Nice! Red is totally part of the rainbow!) but was stumped about how to pull off the other 6 colors.  From the way back of the fridge I rustled up a 3/4 full can of ready-made frosting (those things don’t really expire, right?) … but it was Strawberry flavored and therefore pink. This was looking more like a Planet Mars cake than a rainbow one.

And then I remembered the forgotten bag of candy Easter eggs that they had lugged back from Miami…which then reminded me of the forgotten mini bags of Gobstoppers from Halloween…which led to…

A MIGHTY FINE RAINBOW CAKE THANKYOUVERYMUCH.

The End.