Cupcakes At School

Being a summer birthday person I never got to celebrate my birthday at school.  Clearly we hadn't heard of "half birthdays" where you get to celebrate at the six month mark (mine would be January 28th, by the way).  One by one my classmates were paraded in front of the class with the obligatory song and applause.  Many of the kids also brought in cupcakes and treats.  They were the star of the day even if they were chased around the playground for a birthday spanking.  The biggest drama was the party invite as some kids were sometimes excluded.  At the end of the year the three kids with summer birthdays were brought up front  and had a pity song tossed their way.  woo.

Bitter, party of one.

So guess whose kid was never sent off to school with birthday cupcakes?  Especially since one of my children was also a summer birthday?  It just wouldn't be fair.  Fortunately no one was an oddball since that was also the time that schools freaked out over home-baked food coming into classrooms.  Yeah, like I would go to the store and buy cupcakes for a room of kids I don't know?  Have you not met me?  Oh well, that's not something I would do.

But how cool is this when the daycare made it a special day with a groovy hat and made at school cupcakes?  And how awesome that they took pictures and sent copies home???  There is absolutely nothing like a great day care.