Sneaky Birthday…

Do Birthday’s ever sneak up on you…? Recently my daughter turned 10, and I was – well, the word is – “unprepared”.  I have to say thank you to my local shops, café’s and their employees to help me pull off what needed to look like I have it together & was prepared the entire time!

My daughter Birthday this year fell on a Sunday - So the evening of Thursday before her birthday, my daughter came to me saying – “let’s get started on those cupcakes”.  It was almost bed time for her & I knew I couldn’t begin a project like this so late.  Her eyes welled up with tears claiming she had promised her class a cupcake celebration the following day… At that point, my tummy sunk way down in my chair and promised her something better – something more special!

When I awoke the next morning and got the kiddo’s off to school – I went into a frantic moment – of “What the heck am I going to do?” Donuts? store bought cupcakes? Had I promised something I couldn’t present?  So I am in the drive thru at Starbucks for my morning mocha and on their menu board is a new item “Cake Pops”… hummmm, now there is an idea!

After getting my coffee, I parked and ran inside to see what these were and if they were as cute as in the picture.  Can we say DARLING?  I proudly went to the counter and ordered 30.  The gal looked at me like I was nuts…and kindly replied – lets see what we can do. She had a few boxes in the refrigerator of these goodies and sold me what she had – I headed off to two more Starbucks and cleaned them out too.  Afterwards, I stopped at Michaels to search their dollar section for cupcake paper cups & headed home to create something fabulous! 

So excited how this turned out…

When I arrived at school to deliver the Birthday goodies – my daughter was delighted!  Ahhhh, disaster averted!

Thanks for popping over to visit & please do share a story where you’ve avoided a disaster (so I don’t feel so bad) To see what I am linking to this week – please check my “Cottage Links” label……

xoox, Tracie