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Yesterday I had a great opportunity! Tyler's birthday was Monday and we had returned from two terrific days at Disneyland and California Adventure with my daughter and her husband. We all had a great time and walked our legs to stumps. Tuesday I painted in my class all day (see the still life from my morning class), but on Wednesday I was able to be a guest reader in Tyler's class to celebrate his eighth birthday. The drill is, the parent bakes or buys a treat and gets to read with their child to the class. Then the class sings "Happy Birthday" and a few other songs to the birthday child.

I was in what I thought was my super mode. The night before I baked chocolate cupcakes because that's Tyler's favorite flavor. I let them cool overnight.

The next morning I got up early and iced the cupcakes and added colorful sprinkles. I was feeling soooo good about myself. I got dressed and then we all loaded everything in the car to go to school.

We were great. That is until my usual volunteer time in the computer lab (before our stage performance in front of all of his classmates) when Tyler comes up to me and says, "Nona! You have chocolate on your sleeve!" Oh, no, I thought to myself. How did I do that? I was so careful! Then as I scurried over to the sink to wash the chocolate off my sleeve, I noticed that it was also smeared across my breast! Now mind you, I perhaps hadn't made the best choice in wardrobe when I selected a WHITE fluffy wrap to top off my ensemble but... I was being SO careful! Okay... so perhaps I didn't hear the computer teacher's instruction on how to make the multiplication table using an EXCEL spreadsheet, but at least I got the darn chocolate off myself and would look okay when I debuted next to Tyler.

NOT...

A few minutes before the end of the computer class and right before we were to go to class to read, someone discovered MORE CHOCOLATE on my back. HUH??? How did it get THERE??? Well the teacher was kind enough to wash it off and off we went to read our story.

I read. -Tyler read. - We showed the great pictures and everyone enjoyed SkippyJonJones, the story of the Siamese cat who thought he was a chihuahua. I was so proud of Tyler's reading and stage presence and thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity.

Later that day after I had been seen in several other places, I looked down and found chocolate all over the front of my pants!! It was insidious!

Tyler got home and said that the cupcakes had all been eaten and enjoyed. It wasn't until the very very end of the day when I discovered chocolate on the strap of my purse! AHA! THAT must be how it got in all of those other places.

The thing about chocolate is that it can be mistaken for so many other things.... uhhhhh. -- Do you think people thought it might have been burnt umber paint.... ?...... Hopefully not anything else that it could have been. At least it smelled good!