Our finished product turned out much better. We slowed ourselves down, perfecting each step and diligently followed the plan we thought about what happened to make it fail the first time and ensured we problem-solved to fix it this time. We devised a plan together, to make sure we learned from our mistakes to make our next attempt a success. So, I took off my apron, drove back to the craft store to get plenty of fondant-I wasn’t going to run out of fondant this time! When we arrived back home, we reflected on what went wrong the first time. I didn’t want her to learn the quitting lesson from me. ![]() I knew that my daughter was watching and learning from my actions. The verses of Sondheim’s song went through my head. What lesson am I teaching my daughter: When things get tough, it’s okay to quit? After telling her all school year long to persevere through the hard, I’m showing her it’s okay to quit. Until I stopped and thought about it for a moment. I could tell she was disappointed, but at that point, I was so frustrated and at my Witt’s-end, I didn’t care. Besides, we ran out of fondant, it was late, and the fondant-carrying craft store was two towns over. She would have to do with a regular cake, normally decorated. Told my daughter there was just no way this narwhal cake was going to work. The picture doesn’t do it justice-it was truly horrendous! I threw in the towel. My frosting layer wasn’t even, which was part of the problem, as we found out. The worse part was it looked as if it was sliding off! You see, there’s a thin layer of frosting between the cake and the fondant, or there is supposed to be. The decorations wouldn’t cover all the patches. There was no way I could serve this thing. No matter how we stretched, it just looked horrible! Instead of a smooth narwhal body, it was lumpy and obviously patched up. We rolled it out, kneaded it again, rolled it again, kneaded, repeat, repeat. Needless to say, the fondant wasn’t as easy to work with as the video portrayed. We took our bag of fondant home, baked up a chocolate cake, let it cool, then set our sights on the fondant. It looked do-able, so off we went to the craft store to buy the various colors of fondant (one thing I was not doing was coloring my own fondant and craft stores make it extremely easy to buy fondant in every color!). Since I fancy myself a baker, we watched the video complete with step-by-step instructions on how to apply the fondant and decorate this cake. As a recent discoverer of Pinterest, she found a narwhal cake that she just had to have for her birthday. Now, I have no idea why, but you could suddenly find them all over the place. Children will listen.” ~Steven Sondheimīefore her eleventh birthday, my daughter became obsessed with narwhals. ![]() Children will look to you for which way to turn. Children may not obey, but children will listen. Careful the things you do, children will see and learn. ![]() “Careful the things you say, children will listen.
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