Reply #111: While I applaud you for your expert cupcake making

[Clark2008]

:applause: I have to, and with a great amount of teasing, chide you a bit for the color of the cupcake holders.

And, I laugh as I say this. Let me explain:

I was a tomboy. When I wasn't riding in rodeos, I was helping my Dad and his grandfather in my great-grandfather's shop. I played with the occassional dolly, but I found Matchbox cars and horse figurines and catching salamanders and crawdads in the creek much more enjoyable. Fast forward a few years to the time I was first pregnant: it was a boy (is a boy) and I was so relieved! Cars and super heros and race tracks and cool gadgets! And NO PINK! I hate PINK! Yeah!!

Well, guess what? It's a few years later and I'm pregnant again and we've just found out that... it's a, gulp, girl!! She's thus far, at 20-weeks in-uetero, a healthy little girl. Has all her little fingers and all her little toes and my jaw line and her little heart and brain are formed and functioning, etc. etc. So I get all excited about my little bitty girl and I want to prepare her room and buy her some little clothes so she's not constantly in my son's hand-me-downs and what do I find? NOTHING BUT PINK. It's a nightmare!!! I'm having to spend way more effort than I should have right now hunting down bedding in peaches and greens. I can't find a onesie in peach (found some in green) and I feel like the whole girl world has been Barbie-fied!!! Not only is the Barbie-pinkification of my unborn little girl's world so overwhelming, I also must deal with people who look at me like I've gone insane because I don't want to dress her like she's a cherry tart! Hasn't it dawned on someone that, well, not everyone looks good in hot pink, baby pink, cherry pink, cool pink, rich pink... PINK! I have olive skin and auburn hair. Pink makes me look ill! If my little girl takes after me in any way, shape or form, she won't look healthy in it, either!

Why must we put boys in blue and girls in pink? Isn't that more stereotyping? And, hey, you put the boys cupcakes in my favorite of all colors! Green! I love green! Even pastel green!

So, please, let me have one of your cupcakes - they sound EXTREMELY delicious and yummy and you're a fantastic Dad for making them - but I want mine in the green cupcake holder.

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