Cupcakes

So I make a cake every year for the first day of school. Decided that cupcakes would be easier this year, but it wasn't. I did all the prep work and made the icing and baked the cupcakes before Tara got out of preschool, so she could "help" me. The conversation went like this

Tara:"Mom, why is there a cookie on the cupcake?"

ME:"Tara, that is the chalkboard."

Her:"Ours is white at school"

Me:"Well, they used to be black in my day"

Tara:"What is that white thing?"

Me: "That is supposed to be chalk?"

Tara: "How will it show up on the white chalkboard?"

ME: "It won't"

Tara: I bet that teacher will be mad"

Tara:"Is is candy? Can I eat it?"

Me: "You can try it, but it is licorice and I do not know if you like it"

After a bite Tara says "That is gross"

So the conversation goes on and on and on like this until we are done many days/weeks later and we take them to her friends.

I told the girls that they may not like the licorice, but they should try it and all as we are delivering cupcakes. We get to Bekah's house and all 4 kids chow down on their cupcakes and not one child even asks what anything is on it!!! They all ate the licorice...no complaining while mine are dissecting the entire cupcake to see what each item is...even the writing on the "Chalkboard". Then we get home and my kids want a plain cupcake if it's ok. Do I have any? Of course. I knew, because I am their Mom. Next year it is plain cupcakes.