Various & sundry
posted in Birthdays, Family, Gymnastics, Holidays and Festivals, Livestock and Pets, OmegaDotter |The daffodils OmegaDad purchased for me last week are still going strong; this is what they looked like the day after he got them:
OmegaDotter made my birthday cake all by herself, with coaching from OmegaDad. It was my favorite from my childhood, an orange cake with Solo apricot pie filling in between the layers (OmegaDad searched all over for that stuff, and finally located it, and informed me that this was a once-in-a-great-while cake because the one can of Solo pie filling cost about $5.00) and a lemon buttercream frosting. Yum. Yes, the picture is blurry; all the pics OmegaDad took that day were blurry except the one where my eyes look sunken like I’m strung out on heroin or something.
You note the red dress above? OmegaDotter wore it twice. She wore the purple stripe dress below to school on Tuesday and Friday, and all day on Saturday and Sunday, and I had to promise (pinkie promise, up, down, left, right) that it would be cleaned this very night and ready to be worn again tomorrow. Note how old she looks in this pic. Doesn’t she look like she’s 11 or 12? It’s scary.
The Easter basket. Last night, OmegaDotter informed me, in a surreptitious whisper as we were doing our bedtime ritual, “Mommy! I think Daddy does the Easter Bunny footprints!” I responded with an aghast, “NO!“, and she assured me that it must be so. She did not, however, add two plus two to get “OmegaDad is the Easter Bunny”. That will happen next year, I am sure.
The basket had, actually, very little candy. OmegaDad has been carefully collecting small tchotchkes that cost about $1 each, such as an assortment of cute Easter-themed erasers, a set of mini-cookie cutters, a bead necklace set, a little bunny-shaped bottle of bubble-blowing stuff, plus a horsie and a set of spring/Easter themed chef wear, which the dotter is wearing below as she prepares to help daddy cook dinner.
Our new chicks have names now–the Australorp is named Adelaide (Addie for short), and the Buff Orpington is Serafina (Sara for short). They are utterly adorable.
I really do have a serious post or two planned, which I’ve been noodling about in my head for a while, but today was a day of marathon laundry plus starting the taxes, so what you see is what you get.
