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Thu, 12 Sep 2013
Faux cupcakes
Depending on who you believe, Sarah and I didn’t get enough notice, didn’t pay enough attention to the notice or just didn’t really understand that Robert needed, really, REALLY needed to bring two twin cupcakes to school today.
There was lots of unhappiness at the realization that we don’t have a stash of cupcakes to call on should the need arise. The unhappiness did not abate in light of the explanation that stopping to get cupcakes on the way to school was not a realistic option.
The unhappiness did start to fade at the idea of building faux cupcakes from items at hand: pancakes (it has cake in the name, right?), carefully cut to fill cupcake wrappers, icing (because it never goes bad, right?) and sprinkles — who doesn’t like sprinkles?
What will the report from school hold? How were these cupcakes received? How many kids were able to communicate the importance of cupcakes to their clueless parents? Inquiring minds want to know….
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