OmegaMom

23rd January 2006

Wired

No, alas.

OmegaMom, in her eagerness to buy a nice-looking chocolate cake for OmegaDotter’s bday, glanced at the darker brown spots on the rosettes on the chocolate cake she purchased, and assumed (we all know what “assume” means, right?) that the dark spots were dark chocolate. Being a dark chocoholic, and seeking to lure OmegaDotter into the (har) Dark Side, this was seen as well and good.

Um, no.

Those were not spots of dark chocolate frosting.

Oh, no.

They were espresso beans.

The cake was not chocolate, it was mocha.

(A very yummy mocha. Damn fine. But…uh…mocha. That means, in addition to the caffeine from chocolate, there was caffeine from…um…coffee beans. Maybe even more espresso beans.)

All of this dastardliness was discovered after OmegaDotter had cheerfully ingested A Large Amount, before the OmegaParents could start their pieces.

(Picture OmegaMom running down the dark street, screaming, “SAVE ME!!!!” at the top of her lungs.)

You are not allowed to laugh.

At all.

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23rd January 2006

Four

The Dotter turns four today. (We think.) Um. How did this happen? I look at the pics of her as an infant, and wonder where that tiny child went?

Yeah, yeah, gimme a break. It’s cliché because…well…these feelings occur to just about every parent out there.

OmegaDad is cooking dinner. We’ve snuck a cake into the fridge, along with the “4″ candle. OmegaDad took the dotter down to the local store to return videos (oh, how Dark Ages of us, to rent videos from a store!), and gave me the opportunity to sneak in stuff and wrap some presents on the sly.

No party this year, but next year I think we will venture into the Ghastly World of Children’s Birthday Parties.

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