Chocolate covered cherry cupcakes!?!

I have nearly completed Kaili's dance vest, but I needed to come up with something to contribute to a bake sale fund raiser for Ellie's class tomorrow. . .yes, they are holding it on Mother's Day. Anyway, I stole an idea from Robin for decorating cupcakes, but I wanted them to be something different without being too bizarre flavor-wise. As I was perusing the cake mix isle after work yesterday I saw a cherry chip mix. Then I grabbed a can of ready made fudge frosting. . .yeah, I know. . .I shoulda done scratch. Anyway, I did the cherry chip cupcakes, then dropped a cherry from some canned pie filling in the center of each cupcake before baking. They all got a coat of chocolate icing, then Kaili and I did the marshmallow flower thing to finish them off. I made 6 extra, so the fam got to taste test (they passed-the cupcakes, not the fam).

After spending my morning madly stitching, seam ripping, altering, re-stitching, baking and decorating, Dax had come home from his job and was telling me about his plans for the rest of the day. Kaili and I were just finishing up the last of the cupcakes and I mentioned I could take Dax with me when I went in to work at 12:30, then he could hang with his Dad and Ellie at the mall. Dax then says "Uh, Mom if your leaving for work at 12:30, shouldn't you get going?" It was 12:25!!! I had a shower, grabbed lunch, brushed teeth and hair and was out the door in 10 minutes, kinda reminded me of the old fire-fighting days.

Looks like they are short-handed tomorrow, so I will be working tomorrow too now. I feel like I gotta make hay while the sun shines. . .Hope everyone has a nice Mother's Day!