Dinner was pizza at Piccino. We sat outside–yes it’s been just that nice–and watched people arrive for a Halloween party across the street. Pirates seemed to be a very popular costume. We ate out because it was just so lovely out and reports predict an end to this glorious summer weather sometime soon. Every day the prediction is it will all end tomorrow. And yet it doesn’t end. I know I’m not going to get any sympathy for this, but it gets exhausting enjoying the last of the good weather every day…. But I digress. We ate out because of the weather but also because of how I spent the afternoon:
Ernie and I baked cupcakes for the cake walk at a field trip fund raising festival at his school today. And public schools need every cupcake they can get. So we baked four dozen. Then I let him chose how he wanted to decorate them from this awesome book “Hello Cupcake” my aunt gave me. It has fairly easy decorating ideas that use cut up candy and some simple piping. We decided on the spider theme.
It seemed reasonable. Melt some chocolate, draw little spiders a la the template in the book, use M+Ms as the bodies…. And I suppose if Ernie had the use of both hands (his right arm is in a cast from a run-in with some monkey bars), or if it hadn’t been hot enough out to keep the chocolate from re-melting 2 seconds after I took the spiders out of the freezer, or if I’d remembered what a pain in the ass boiled frosting is it might have all gone as expected. Instead we had a lot of broken spider legs, one bored kindergartener, and one mom swearing off all future cake walk contributions.
My solace: Ernie plans to try and win a plate of our cupcakes this afternoon.
My concern: It’s nice again today. Nice enough to melt spiders left in the sun.
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