A First Day Back...

Summer is glorious. Days of sleeping in, making my own schedule, trips to visit the ones I miss and all around shenanigans are thoroughly enjoyed. I'll admit, summer is a HUGE perk of being a teacher. Though,  is is a well earned (with blood, sweat and tears), well deserved, perk of being a teacher. The majority of people would not last a day in my shoes... Seriously. My sister made the mistake of coming to my classroom once, and I think she may be scarred for life. With summer being so magical (we're talking random, unexplained, choreographed musical numbers in the street magical), it makes going back to the old grindstone reeaaallllllyyyyyy hard. Realllly, reealllly hard. I have it on good authority, that most normal people would just never go back if they had summers off. Alas, it is a burden I must carry upon my still-ghostly-white-despite-the-end-of-summer shoulders. Since that first day back is such a beating, (often made in a very ill chosen shoe choice... Heels? Really? Total palm to forehead moment there.) I knew it was essential that I made it slightly more bearable with cupcakes. I decided to take the old "an apple a day" adage, and apply it to cupcakery. To the littlest bakesweatshop I went to create a myriad of fondant wonderies. Little red apples, gold stars (who doesn't love a bit of affirmation?), and chalkboards with chalk (really, kinda passe... everyone knows that chalkboards are soooooo 1999) were to adorn each little bite of first day salvation. I found a delicious recipe for apple cupcake with apple filling that was both sweet and tart, and topped it with my favorite cream cheese frosting. The piece de resistance (ha!) was the corny, cheesy, teachery, poem that I paired with the cakes de cup. Word wizardry is a skill that has come in handy many a time in my life... It goes without saying that these little beauties didn't last long in the Teacher's Lounge. If I had to put a time to it, I'd say a hot minute. I think I've started a tradition though... The first day of school is apple cupcake day. To go with our adage theme here, the early bird gets the worm, and if you snooze you loose.

A brighter way to start your first day...

A very teacherly display.

Until next time, sweet dreams!

-J