We don't celebrate birthdays in a really big way in our house. The birthday person gets to choose all their food for the day--breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert--and then we have a little family party after dinner with presents.
The food is obviously a big part of that, and I have always made anything my children have requested.
Until this year.
This year's new 15-year-old* requested this lasagna for his birthday.
Ugh.
I never wanted to make that again. It was just too much. But it's a birthday! And I always said I would make anything for their birthdays!
So I resigned myself to two days in the kitchen, plus some sore arms. As the birthday grew closer, though, and I realized how much I was dreading it, I just . . . said no. I told him I would make him lasagna, but it wasn't going to be that particular one.
Whereupon he changed his mind and said he'd rather have pork ribs and mashed potatoes. Which are about a thousand times easier.
I do feel some guilt about this, but not enough to make the lasagna. And I did make cinnamon rolls for his birthday breakfast, so that kind of makes up for the lasagna, right?
I guess even I have my limits in the kitchen. And that lasagna is it.
*I am now in the stage of figuring out how to get teenagers a driver's licenses, which is wild. Also wild: I will not be out of this stage for another decade.
4 comments:
Happy Birthday to the 15 year old!
The cinnamon rolls look great. I make mine the day before and leave thrm unbaked in the fridge to raise,slowly and bake in the morning. How does par-baking work?
They're just baked half the total time, then you can refrigerate or freeze them and bake them the last ten minutes or so the morning you want to eat them.
If someone wants that particular lasagna for their birthday ..you need a months notice so you can take as long as you need to, possibly 3 weeks to complete all the steps one a week or so. I like the idea of getting to pick all your meals for the day...we have always done it that you get to pick your meal for your birthday dinner and dessert.
Cinnamon rolls yum. The children always feel special because you (mom) are focusing on them. Great job, #1 mom, once again!
gotta draw the line somewhere, and nothing wrong with that either.
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