My Birthday Cupcakes

Well, my birthday this year was a disaster.  That is alright though, since I am rapidly getting used to the way people are treating me lately.  After coming home from work (late day) the night before my birthday I was informed that it was requested of me to bake some goodies for the people J works with.  Hmmm.... do I really want to be baking something on my birthday!?  Not really.  In lieu of it being my birthday, I wanted to make something special, so I wracked my brain about what I could possibly do and remembered this yummy recipe a friend gave me.  They have a cookie dough filling - Yummy!  Needless to say.... I ended up cooking these VERY late on the 8th and waking up early on the 9th to frost them instead of hitting the gym.  Ugh!  I also had to bake more stuff to ease the burden on some other people going through some challenges and then had to show up AGAIN to another activity as the only leader from our ward.  

Most of my day was spent doing stuff for everyone else.  It was really hard for me, because birthdays were a big thing in my family growing up.  My family always treated it as a special occasion. Thank Heaven my husband came home and gave me a few hours to go out and do something on my own.  Even though that time was also spent finalizing our Christmas shopping for the children.  I can't complain though - because I had these waiting for me, and at least it was time ALONE.