Monogrammed cupcakes another mistake

I guess I try to hard sometimes to be the perfect "mom" to me home made birthday cupcakes are something special and it means that you have put that extra effort and love into caring that the child has something non mass market and original. Regardless of the time sacrifice you have to make to accomplish it.

 Example for the first round of birthday celebrations at grandma's I made the above birthday cupcakes for the girls, ringed in carefully sorted m&ms and monogrammed with their intials. A project that got started at 9pm at night after working an 11.5 hour day. I still made the effort to get cupcakes baked, cooled, frosted, decorated, and than packaged to survive the trip to grandma's house. I thought this would be a fun bonding project where we could work together as a family and get it done in a timely efficent matter not that I would be working on it solo while the twins ate the surplus m&ms and the hubs wrangled Mini.

While I thought cupcakes turned out ok, maybe I am wrong maybe I just need to give up on trying to do things that are special and unique and instead just order mass produced baked goods from my local grocery. It would sure save time and maybe that would justify the expense?  I have two more weekends of birthday extravaganza to get through (as grandma decreeded that each twin needed her own birthday dinner and we will have them over their birthday <yes that works out to 3 weekends of birthday, plus birthday with their mom too, can you feel the hedonism> )and you may or may not see additional homemade cake pictures. Instead you may see pictures of my surrender and ordering a cake that takes me 5 minutes and swipe of the Visa. I guess I'm just not a modern Martha Stewart and frankly I don't think they care. Does anyone have the number to a good bakery?

I feel I need to add a post script to this blog. In no way shape or form am I upset about grandma choosing to celebrate the twins birthdays seperatly. (Family reads the blog you know and I am not trying to start some sort of upset). Just feeling that maybe I don't make the wisest investments of my time trying to do the best for my family. To me taking that time to make and create is a way that I do show my love for my family because money is easy but time shows that I care.