A Cake for Each Decade

Who makes their own birthday cakes? Only food-obsessed people, who are too fearful to entrust such a task to their guests, do. In other words, me. In the middle of spending a full day baking while E went to school to do his work, I wondered if it was such a brilliant idea. Later I confessed to him that I'd like next year's party to be a surprise. "That's fair," he replied.