Let them eat cake!

Miss Mumpy had big plans for Mr. M's birthday.  She would go shopping for gifts in advance, purchase festive decorations, bake two lasagnas and a cake.
Shopping: Miss Mumpy's primary means of transportation was indisposed with The Crud and her secondary means of transport was the giftee.  With four medical visits the previous week Miss Mumpy had worn out any other means of getting to the shops leaving gift buying to Mr. M's birthday-eve (never a good thing).  Miss Mumpy hangs her head in shame to admit that Mr. M received a non-fogging shower mirror and a shower curtain liner (well he was getting a nifty electric shaver from someone else.....).
Cooking: Well, perhaps she could make it up to him with a marathon of cooking and baking.  Now an entire day in the kitchen is a bit of an impossibility for Mumpy so she planned to start early and carefully scheduled herself rest breaks throughout the day.  Unfortunately she began the day with a painful UTI accompanied by flu-like symptoms.  Another medical visit had not been part of her carefully laid plans for the day but had to be fit in.  Feeling shaky and as if her kidneys were in a vice she began cooking hours late but managed to bake both lasagnas to perfection and the cake began well.  The cake was a chocolate sheet cake with white frosting and a smiling Mumpy face with black icing.  No special decorating tips?  No problem right?  Oops, black icing everywhere.  When it was finally done she covered the pan with a cutting board so that Mr. M would not see it when he arrived home.  Lifting the board off, voila!, the icing and frosting had stuck to the other side of the board.  Some last minute doctoring fixed the problem but deemed the cake not picuture worthy (which is why there is no photo to accompany this post).