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Thursday, June 18, 2009

My Martha Stewart Moment

Today was my younger son's (YS) playgroup birthday party. I can't believe that he'll be three this weekend! Just yesterday I was at Davis Farmland and reminisced about how three years ago I felt my first contractions and thought I was going to give birth among the goats. The pregnant goats and I go be roomies.

Because YS is the baby, I wanted to do something extra special for his playgroup birthday party today. I went on-line and searched through a dozen different party sites to come up with the perfect cupcake decorations.

Alright that's not really what happened. The Big Giraffe and I celebrated our 8th anniversary with a pitcher of sangria and I had a slight hangover the next morning. I was watching the Today Show with a big cup of coffee and Martha Stewart happened to be on talking about her new cupcake book. She gave a demo of how to make basketball cupcakes. They looked pretty easy and so when YS asked for them I agreed.

Those were the hardest cupcakes I ever made! By the end I was sweating bullets and felt like I was going to die. My whole body ached. Oh, wait that was giving birth to YS. The cupcakes? I learned how to do it with a hangover so it can't be that bad, right?

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Everyone can have a Martha Stewart moment, even us Crafts for the Clueless people.

*I used the Magnolia bakery's recipe for chocolate cake and vanilla buttercream frosting. The Big Giraffe and I loved going to Magnolia when we lived in NYC.

Labels: Humor (at least Attempted)

posted by Alex Elliot @ 3:55 PM 5 comments

5 Comments:

At 6/18/2009 7:30 PM, Andrea Proulx said…

I totally would have not been able to bake those. LOL, okay not to sound like a stalker but HOLY COINCIDENCES Batman...

My daughter is turning 3 tomorrow (i bought the cupcakes for her school party - go me). And I live relatively close to Davis Farmland. It's so fun there for the kiddos!
At 6/18/2009 10:46 PM, Heather said…

Well, I think they look fab!
At 6/19/2009 2:56 PM, Suzanne said…

Yum! Looks awesome!
At 6/19/2009 10:28 PM, Kami's Khlopchyk said…

You are hilarious! Cupcakes look great and happy 3rd to your boy! Gosh time flies, doesn't it! My baby will be 5 in nine days. FIVE.
At 6/29/2009 8:01 AM, Goofball said…

basketball cupcakes! totally awesome!

and I love the fact you were almost roomies with the pregnant goats. hahaha what a story we missed.

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