{"id":11324,"date":"2015-02-16T09:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T09:19:12","slug":"ten-and-the-make-do-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-and-the-make-do-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten and the Make Do Cake&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-make-cake\/1-img_9442\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11331\"><img data-attachment-id=\"11331\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-and-the-make-do-cake\/1-img_9442\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-IMG_9442.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,649\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G15&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1424004721&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1-IMG_9442\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-IMG_9442-300x243.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-IMG_9442-720x584.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11331 pp_post_image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-IMG_9442.jpg\" alt=\"1-IMG_9442\" width=\"800\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-IMG_9442.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-IMG_9442-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-IMG_9442-720x584.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Small Girl turned ten yesterday. \u00a0Ten whole years. \u00a0Where has the time gone?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With double digits I guess she can&#8217;t be classified as a &#8220;Small Girl&#8221; for much longer, especially as she gets taller by the second!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we are in Switzerland for a few days, and she celebrates her birthday away from home, and thus away from my kitchen &#8211; this of course meant no cake cobbled together by moi. \u00a0 \u00a0Although not an ideal situation in her eyes, we compromised on a &#8220;Make Do&#8221; cake on the promise of a home-made one when we get back. \u00a0 By pure luck, we have a fantastic bakery in the town we are staying in, and they came up with the goods in the form of the nicest Black Forest Gateaux I have ever tasted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took ages to actually try any, as we had to wait quite a while for her to recompose herself &#8211; during her initial attempt at blowing out her candles, she managed to spread much of the chocolate across the table instead, and didn&#8217;t extinguish a single flame! \u00a0But once she had stopped laughing enough to taste some, the Birthday Girl claimed it was that good, I don&#8217;t even have to make her a &#8220;real&#8221; cake when we get home! \u00a0Thanks Bakery!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To me it doesn&#8217;t seem possible that she&#8217;s ten whole years old &#8211; her baby and toddler years often seem months ago rather than years, but when I think about it we&#8217;ve packed a lot into that time&#8230; \u00a0Ten whole years of being a mother for me &#8211; ten whole years of existence for her, including 4 house moves, 3 temporary homelands (including England obviously!) 8 years of being a big sister, 5 years of being a Third Culture Kid, and 13 countries tucked under her belt so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I look forward to the adventures to come my sweet. \u00a0 Make do Cakes and all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share me:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-11324\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-and-the-make-do-cake\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-11324\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-and-the-make-do-cake\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-11324\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-and-the-make-do-cake\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-and-the-make-do-cake\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/ten-and-the-make-do-cake\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\" ><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Ten%20and%20the%20Make%20Do%20Cake...&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesojournseries.com%2Fbavaria%2Ften-and-the-make-do-cake%2F&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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