Bryan's birthday was this past week, and he had a birthday party for the very first time, with invitations and friends and everything! We actually ended up having a joint party with another little girl from his class who had scheduled her party for the same time, but that's another, non-food-allergy-related story. When I asked Bryan what kind of cupcakes he wanted for his party, he told me that he really wanted Backyardigans cupcakes. (For the non-parents out there, The Backyardigans is a cartoon that has 5 friends (a penguin, a moose, a bug, a kangaroo, and a hippo) who all live next door to each other, and who have all sorts of fun adventures together in their backyards.) So... knowing that I couldn't exactly go to a bakery and pick up a Backyardigans cake for him, I set out to make his Backyardigans cupcakes. And I think I did a pretty good job, if I do say so myself:
Which brings me to my current train of thought... Would I have gone through all of this trouble if Bryan didn't have his food allergy problems? I think the short answer is no- I would have just gone out and bought a pre-decorated cake for him. But even beyond that, I kind of wonder... It never occured to me to say "No Bryan, I don't think I can do that- can you think of something easier?" I just immediately thought, Okay- Bryan wants Backyardigans... how do I make that happen? It's almost like a feeling of guilt- that I HAD to do it because I COULDN'T just go to a store and pick up something up. If I had been able to buy a cake for him and they didn't have Backyardigans, I probably would have had him choose something else, right? But since we didn't even have that option, I felt like I needed to make sure he at least had SOMETHING special.
I know that I'm not articulating this very well. Which I suppose brings me back to the title of this post. Am I crafty? Or just plain crazy?
