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Original poster

...to not eat the cake that son has made me for mother's day

53 replies

mitochondria · 01/04/2011 20:05

He's four.
Came out of school today clutching a cupcake, iced with thick yellow substance.

"It's for you, for mother's day"

I know his standards of personal hygiene. I don't like icing. Husband has kindly offered to eat cake on my behalf. Boy is in bed.

That's OK, right? I'll lie, and tell him it was delicious.

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thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 01/04/2011 20:59

I'll have it I LOVE CAKE Grin

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 01/04/2011 21:08

Awwww but it was made with 90% flour/sugar/eggs/marge 9% love and 1% snot/earwax/floor germs/bubonic plague -

What's 1% between friends eh? Grin

littleducks · 01/04/2011 21:23

I cant understand Bogeyface at all

MissGreatBritain · 01/04/2011 21:26

No, no and no! First rule of parenting - never touch anything supposedly edible that children bring home from school. Grin Make sure you leave the wrapper laying around somewhere, so it looks like you've eaten it though Grin

ForShizzle · 01/04/2011 21:28

I would eat a cake my 5 year old DD made me, even if she had dropped the cake mix on the floor! The chances of it killing me\making me puke are verrry slim. The chances of it making her happy are pretty good though.

Daffodilly · 01/04/2011 21:41

YANBU - I advocate a strict policy of not eating anything DD brings home from playschool. That is DH's job.

I admire artwork.

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mitochondria · 01/04/2011 22:01

I'm going to be admiring a card, I know. He wouldn't let me look in his bookbag because there was "something secret in there".

I'm very good at admiring artwork.

Still not going to eat the cake though. You have failed to guilt-trip me into it.

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EvilTwins · 01/04/2011 22:07

My DTDs (yr R) came out of school today, presented me with little boxes they had made containing two delicious looking sweeties (made yesterday because it took "all night for them to get hard") and said "We've made you some sweets for mother's day. Can we eat them?"

I very generously let them. Aren't I nice?

3Of1And1OfTheOther · 01/04/2011 22:18

eww yanbu my daughter came home with cakes today that smelt like eggy farts and i definitely wouldnt of been able to stomach them-shes 13 btw and said they smelt like that because they used free range eggs!

MoChan · 01/04/2011 22:20

Why can't you just eat it? It won't kill you. Even if it does have other children's germs in it.

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 01/04/2011 22:25

mitochon

guilt-trip ok last resort then:

Chants: eeeeaat it...............eeeeeeeat it..............eeeeeeeeat it........

Grin
Original poster
mitochondria · 01/04/2011 22:27

Too late, I'm afraid. Husband has eaten it. Apparently it was "very nice".

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NorthernGobshite · 01/04/2011 22:30

Let's hope your son doesn't suss you out Sad

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 01/04/2011 22:35

Has he turned green and grown fins yet? Grin

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mitochondria · 01/04/2011 22:38

Son will not suss me. I am a very good liar. He still thinks a man in a red suit brings him presents at Christmas and a fairy takes his brother's teeth away.

Anyway, if I say "the cake was very nice" that's not exactly a lie, is it?

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thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 01/04/2011 22:42

How are you going to live with the guilt Hmm

NorthernGobshite · 01/04/2011 22:46

Only kidding with you OP!

I personally would have ate the darn cake but each to own.

GotArt · 01/04/2011 22:48

LOL Mitochondria I would certainly be reluctant. Here is a good reason not to eat what your kids make; .

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 01/04/2011 22:51

You'll 'break' one day in the future and blurt it out after he asks a totally inocuous unrelated question -

mitochondria's son: "Mummy, why do bunnies twitch thier noses?"
mitochondria: "I DIDN'T EAT IIIIIIIIIT!!"

one day, maybe not tomorrow, or next week, or next year, but one day.......

Grin
thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 01/04/2011 22:52

.....aaaaand relax.

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mitochondria · 01/04/2011 22:53

Or maybe next time he turns his nose up at the meal that I have lovingly prepared for him with the words "that looks yuck"

"Well, you know what......"

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haudyerwheesht · 01/04/2011 22:53

I won't tell u about my son sneezing on his birthday cake when he had swine flu...

tootiredtomakeupagoodname · 01/04/2011 22:54

Aww, I would have eaten it infront of DS. I can honestly say nothing disgusts me about my DC and I am quite obsessed with personal hygiene and having a clean, tidy home. It wouldn't have killed you and DS would be very pleased with himself Sad

madonnawhore · 01/04/2011 22:55

Bogeyface you need to chill out.

Children are little vectors of germs and disease! When my mum was a primary school teacher a kid in her class brought in a load of cupcakes he'd made at home. My mum was very appreciative of them and said that she would distribute them 'later' (planning to replace them with edible ones at lunchtime). But her teaching assistant didn't get the memo about not letting the kids eat the cakes and she gave each of them one.

They were ALL violently sick.

OP, YANBU.

megapixels · 01/04/2011 23:00

I wouldn't eat it! If he'd made it at home and it was just his bad hygiene I wouldn't mind, but at nursery all sorts of horrible stuff may have happened. I don't want to eat cake another kid has sneezed on, or another kid's unwashed post-toilet hands have touched etc. It's not like you're even throwing it in the bin like I would, his dad is going to eat it so no need to feel guilty.