<p>Denise, thank you for the birthday cake.</p>
<p>Come join me for a piece of cake and we can drown our sorrows in sugar :)</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, mamabear! Sounds like we are in the same boat.</p>
<p>Hm. This thread is fattening even to read. </p>
<p>As a veteran of the college wars, this too shall pass, and soon. Keep the faith.</p>
<p>Orange juice for all; immune systems need a boost right about now.</p>
<p>Man, I wanted to kick the mailbox last year when it didn’t deliver–but I don’t think you should worry yet–we get our mail a day later than our neighbors a mile away sometimes. Hang in there. And mythmom, someday we’ll enjoy a great dessert and a dip in our hot tub and not even think about calories. I mean it.</p>
<p>PS I didn’t actually kick the mailbox last year–the snow plows blow them out so often that they need no help from residents.</p>
<p>bethievt, I hadn’t considered kicking the mailbox. Sounds like a good idea. </p>
<p>I hope you are right and my mail, like yours, is just a day late.</p>
<p>Lots of spam in my mailbox, but nothing from the places in the far away states. No, I would not dare to kick it - we have a bombproof one. Punks tried to whack it with a baseball bat once, and I think our box won :D</p>
<p>From snooping on CC I know TWO letters were mailed on the 24th and the 25th. Question is: the thick or the thin envelopes?</p>
<p>Hang in there, fellow decision waiters!</p>
<p>Orange? Why, the cake has orange in it already! </p>
<p>Oxyalum, happy birthday, and I hope you like orange! Your cake (unless you don’t like it…): [Recipes</a> : Fresh Florida Orange Cake with Toasted Almond Ice Cream and Strawberry Compote : Food Network](<a href=“http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_9498,00.html]Recipes”>http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_9498,00.html)</p>
<p>Except without the compote and ice cream; I made it into three layers and iced it with chocolate frosting instead, and of course, we can still top the slices with ice cream. 
(I also have chocolate-dipped orange slices on top of the cake.)</p>
<p>If that’s not up to your liking, a chocolate cake with a white frosting will be out next. </p>
<p>And I’m also baking oatmeal bread for tomorrow’s sandwiches, which will be cheese, hummus, and cucumber.</p>
<p>owlice, can we all move in with you? Your cooking sounds wonderful!</p>
<p>Wow, owlice! I have a chocolate cake with whipped cream frosting and chocolate shavings. I bought it from my favorite bakery, so I am sure your freshly home-baked cake is better, but I have champagne…okay, I was hoping it would be to toast a college acceptance as well as my firmly middle-aged status, but the champagne is still good ;)</p>
<p>bunsen burner, the only problem with others moving in is that there is increasingly less room on the sofas when the present residents sit down because of all the activity in the kitchen…</p>
<p>oxyalum, champagne is always good!! And favorite bakery cake is, too! What kind of ice cream would you like with that? Cinnamon? Vanilla? Mint?</p>
<p>(We also make ice cream…)</p>
<p>how about coffee ice cream?</p>
<p>I have a huge cake. I am expecting all of you!</p>
<p>Coffee ice cream it is!</p>
<p>owlice: The cake (the orange) sounds wonderful and my birthday is Friday.</p>
<p>My birthday was the day D received her FA package from Barnard and the day they sent S’s Williams acceptance. They were such wonderful presents.</p>
<p>mythmom, the orange cake for your birthday it is!</p>
<p>H’s birthday is tomorrow; he requested the same cake that oxyalum has. Well, not the exact same cake – just the same kind. :-)</p>
<p>~~~ </p>
<p>Make acceptances appear everywhere they are desired tomorrow!</p>
<p>How could I have missed this thread? No longer have S in school, although waiting for a (any) job offer and acceptance could qualify for a vigil?</p>
<p>Apparently there is more than just W and I who likes prunes. Excellence abounds in unusual venues. Of course, Bleu Cheese is also on the munching trays?</p>
<p>Mailbox nightmare - Years ago, our mailbox was torched by bored and seriously troubled kids - and there was mail in it! </p>
<p>My favorite is orange cake from my local Italian restaurant; I bake a lot, too, but don’t eat what I make even though others rave about my goodies. Excellent weight control strategy.</p>
<p>Is it true that the acceptances come first and the rejections last? My DS got three acceptances, two waitlists and one rejection so far and he is waiting for four more (one of which is his top choice, he was waitlisted at his second choice). All the schools are good and two of his acceptances have offered money, but waiting for the rest is killing both of us.</p>
<p>Also, how do people on the other thread know when the decisions are being mailed? Is there a way to find out online?</p>
<p>Mom of 3-- and this is my first!</p>
<p>“Make acceptances …” above was supposed to be “May acceptances …” but were it in my power to make them appear, I surely would!</p>
<p>thisoldman, of course there is bleu cheese on the munching trays. Sometimes it’s gorgonzola, sometimes Danish, etc. and so on.</p>
<p>Lunch today is vegetarian (we’re saving the tenderloin for meat-eating parents for the celebratory dinners): fresh oatmeal bread with a variety of sandwich makings, including bleu, cheddar, and Swiss cheeses, hummus (plain, 40 spices, and roasted red pepper), green peppers, mushrooms, sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes, and other thinly-sliced veggies, and cashew, almond, and peanut butters with black cherry and strawberry preserves and grape jelly. (Sometimes, only pb and j will do, after all!) Today’s hot meal is Moosewood Macaroni and Cheese. The salad bar opens at 11.</p>
<p>Dessert today: leftover birthday cake, fresh oatmeal raisin cookies and blondies, and the always-in-stock ice cream. (Girl Scout cookies are in the pantry.)</p>
<p>Coffee and tea available all day, and the bar opens at 4.</p>
<p>acme, if you check the threads (Under “Colleges”) for the specific schools on CC, people post when they hear of decisions being mailed, when they receive them, etc. </p>
<p>Last year, I watched those threads obsessively. For one of my S’s top choices, you could watch the mail like the waves from a pebblle tossed into a lake: first the in-staters got theirs (the canaries in the proverbial coal mine), then the states bordering that state, and so on.</p>
<p>And, for all of you, here’s some ginger pecan biscotti (baked with my own little hands) to go with your coffee ice cream. You guys will be so high on sugar you won’t even notice as the mail truck rolls past . . .</p>
<p>All appendages crossed for all you!</p>
<p>In the past few days I could only handle looking at this thread and 1 or 2 others. While DD had a good hour yesterday with finding out online about an acceptance (so only her reach still outstanding) closely followed by a prom date call, with each day that passes the likelihood declines that she got into a program that she really wants within one of the schools where she’s been accepted. While she’s a fairly big fish in the small pond of our town, there are too many reminders on other threads of how many off-the-chart awesome kids she may have been up against. Now I think I’ll have to give up on this thread, too–it’s making me too hungry when I’m trying to cope by spending more time in the gym.</p>