the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
From the category archives:
Last night was Barack Obama’s historic speech to the nation. And on Elysia’s ride home yesterday she was told “Why don’t you go back to your country?”
That would be New York City.
She was entering the Pentagon’s Metro station at the same time as an African-American woman and her daughter, who was about 8 years old. [...]
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We had Citrus’s birthday party today at a nearby regional park next to a carousel and miniature steam locomotive. It all went pretty well except for the train derailment, but no kids were lost.
Planning for this party introduced me to a whole new world. I guess I had never been to a true party planning [...]
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It’s been a few days since my last post, and I have been baking up a storm. Coincidentally on the hottest days we have had. Click on the picture for a larger version.
On Thursday we had a going-away party for Steve Ma, who left AARP to launch Live Green a new non-profit in Washington DC. The [...]
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I finished my eighth, and final, basic cake decorating class. We had to come up with something using a Wonder mold, which makes a dome.
I decided to make an aging hippie.
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I definitely need more practice, but here is my first rose and rosebud cake, which I did this evening. We are going to a 2-kid birthday party in early June and I have offered to do both cakes. Have to figure out how to make farm animals. Sheep seem like they should be relatively easy to [...]
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