Kay, do you want everything in the gift bag car-themed? Because at that age cheap bubbles, a little dollar-store notepad, and a bouncy ball would be cheap and help fill it. Oh, also crazy straws!
The car crayons are so cute.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Mar 20, 2011 6:21:07 pm PDT #29356 of 30001
Because books.
WindSparrow - Mar 20, 2011 6:21:31 pm PDT #29357 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I always make hot cocoa with milk. Granted, I also use the powdered stuff, and mix in a couple of generous shakes of cinnamon, but I think it's nom!
I take a packet of sugar-free hot cocoa mix, break up a square of Ghirardelli 100% cocoa solids baking chocolate into it, pour almost-boiling water over it, stir like the dickens, and if available add a splash of cream. Or brandy. Or whiskey. Depending on whether it is before work or after.
WindSparrow - Mar 20, 2011 6:23:28 pm PDT #29358 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Kat, that photo of Grace is adorable. Seriously making me smile.
le nubian - Mar 20, 2011 6:23:42 pm PDT #29359 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
that whole puppies thing is killing me.
and yet I'm not clicking any of the links.
Kat - Mar 20, 2011 6:25:17 pm PDT #29360 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy, bubbles would be easy enough (plus I can label or sticker the bottles, as I am doing with the soda and water bottles). And I thought maybe a strip of Mrs. Grossman's stickers too.
For the party there is one craft project (foam cars) and one art project too.
I need an intervention.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2011 6:27:10 pm PDT #29361 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Trudy Booth - Mar 20, 2011 6:27:43 pm PDT #29362 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I always make hot cocoa with milk. Granted, I also use the powdered stuff, and mix in a couple of generous shakes of cinnamon, but I think it's nom!
Mom's technique is to make it with condensed skim milk. She heats whatever chocolate (from Quik to baking chocolate) in water and when its hot enough she stirs in the can of milk. It prevents burning milk in the bottom of the pan (which was a major consideration when her children took over the job) and you can make it richer but not fatty by using less water.
It was pretty much the only thing we ever used condensed milk for. When we saw those cans come home in the fall it was pretty exciting.
brenda m - Mar 20, 2011 6:29:09 pm PDT #29363 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
that whole puppies thing is killing me.
I spent most of Saturday with this handsome gentleman and I'm 90% sure he's found a home with some pretty awesome people.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2011 6:34:14 pm PDT #29364 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Condensed milk is/was a Jamaican staple. Don't know if it was skim, though. We used it in everything. My favourite was in Milo. Just put the Milo granules (before they reformulated to mostly powder) into a spoonful of condensed milk and spend half an hour sucking it back out. Mighty tasty.
In theory, we were to have it diluted in cereal during milk shortages, but fuck that noise.
I am watching some nonsensical SyFy movie with Juliet Landau (thank you, Amy) right now.
Kat, I love how all out you go for your kids' parties. I was just telling a friend of my sisters how nuts my mother used to get--but her thing was the cakes, and less with decorations and gifts. It's definitely a tradition that sticks with you as you grow up.
Oh, and clothes--she'd sew us our gowns for the parties. So we'd be in maxi dresses while everyone else was in jeans, T shirts, and runners.
Grace looks adorable in that picture. I'm not able to understand how these would have made much sense to me had I gotten my hands on them much younger than when I actually did. But look at them go! Hacking and cracking and Angry Birding.
Strix - Mar 20, 2011 6:47:29 pm PDT #29365 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My grandma and great-aunt were great cake decorators, but I remember how much trouble the head of the unicorn cake they made my sister gave them. Damn head kept falling off; they had to prop it up with toothpicks.
You want to hear little old church-going ladies lose their cool and cuss? (Mild, but STILL! Grandma! Aunt Alice! CUSSING.)
Have them try to prevent spontaneous pastry unicorn decapitation in a moving Chrysler.