There is a lesson to be learned eating cake, and it has nothing to do with nutrition...or lack thereof.How would you feel living far away from family and friends, often risking your life, on your birthday? I bet something as simple as a surprise birthday cake would make you feel pretty damn happy...even for just a few minutes.
That's what Bake Me A Wish!
had in mind when they started the Freedom Cake program. When you purchase a Freedom Cake from Bake Me A Wish for someone here, a second cake is sent to a soldier serving oversees for their birthday!My family was given the opportunity to experience the Kids Freedom Cake: a cake was sent to our home and the Twofer then wrote a letter online that will be delivered to a soldier along with a birthday cake for them!
We decided to share the deeeeelishious cake from Bake Me A Wish!
with some friends and explain the Freedom Cake to all the kids.Let me just pause here to explain how yummy this cake was. When I say my mouth is watering just remembering the chocolate, the icing the....{slurp}. And my husband who is not an big sweets guy and basically never eats dessert...ate an entire piece. Here's what the kids thought of it:
I will be ordering Gourmet Birthday Cakes at BakeMeAWish .com!
for every birthday and holiday from now on. If I'm going to eat cake - I want it to be good and this was lip-smackin, mouth-watering, tounge-cleeking, eyes-rolling, don't-you-dare-touch-my-piece cake!The next step was to go online to BakeMeAWish.com
and register to 'meet' our soldier. It will take a few weeks but we will be assigned a soldier who will receive the cake in our name, and with whom we can start a correspondence.Many kids, including our group, have already had the opportunity to write letters to soldiers. Bake Me a Wish Freedom Cake is the opportunity to wish a soldier Happy Birthday when they really need it, and maintain contact to have a pen pal.
I can't wait until we get our soldier/pen pal and the girls are excited to find out how they enjoyed their cake!
Janine
What a really neat idea. I am defin going to keep this in mind for future friend's and family b'days. Or maybe just for when my inlaws visit us! Who doesn't love cake?
ReplyDeleteI love this idea...I am always looking for a way to communicate with soliders over seas...they must be so lonely...sure they have their squads and what not but what bout people from "home". My cousin was sent to Lebanon to help some Americans and when she got back that is all she could say was how much she missed voices from home and it didn't nessacarily have to be a familar voice...what an awesome program and what an awesome post.
ReplyDeletethis is such a great cause and those videos are adorable although i think the kids were thinking "when will this lady stop rambling and let us eat cake " lol
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