Tom's a year older!!

So Tom and I don't like to spend money on each other for our birthdays, so I make what he wants for dinner and dessert. We have been married for over 12 years and I just learned that he does not like cake. How can someone not like cake? For our anniversary I made key lime pie from scratch. He always talked about key lime pie his mission presidents wife made, but what to do for his birthday. I was going to make a cheesecake! I was so excited. I have only made the jello kind. Not too hard. I found a recipe for a chocolate cheesecake, but now I wonder if I was doing this for Tom or myself. I made it in the morning so it could cool. I could hardly wait till after dinner. I even made the whip cream from scratch too. I started to cut it for the kids, but I really hated to waste it on them. We forgot to put candles and sing happy birthday first, oh well, few slices missing won't hurt. The kids were worried the cake would catch on fire with all the candles on it, I didn't put all the candles on it. I didn't have enough.

Now for the sad part. I only got to have one piece. Bree gets really gassy when I have any dairy products, and there was just a little cream cheese in the cake. She also does not like when I eat chocolate, but this really made her sick. My kids really didn't like it, and Tom went back to work the next day and was gone for 2 days, so the rest of the cake was thrown out. All that work....