<p>jym - the cake sounds delicious! Good thing my slice is only virtual, though. Funny story about them taking your instructions too literally. </p>
<p>D just sprained her hand playing softball - not a big deal, really - except that she had so many things going on - 2 presentations (one for a national competition, and one for a state competition) that she had to prepare for, plus the AP Euro exam which has a lot of writing, plus her All-State Audition is next week. On top of that, her computer was acting up which just added to her stress (and mine). Thanks for asking.</p>
<p>mythmom - I’m going to have to ask D if the kids around here do anything special for their 18th. My S will be like yours - turning 18 at college - but we have several years to go as he’s only 11.</p>
<p>Harriet - your D had a broken nose too? Boy does she keep you on your toes. Thanks for your good wishes - I’m sure D feels the positive vibes flowing her way…lol.</p>
<p>Is it called a portico (the thing on your cake) or is that only if it’s connected to a building? Odd–my son never mentioned porn or lottery tickets or tattoos when he turned 18, but he did mention that it wasn’t too exciting to now be able to buy cigarettes. He turned 18 at home and 19 in college. I sent him a cake and his dorm friends also made him one. Too much birthday cake is just the right amount!</p>
<p>No porn, hookahs, lottery tickets, cigarettes at all mentioned among D and her friends. </p>
<p>Though I do remember a discussion of a tub of jello shots they had to scoop with their hands.</p>
<p>Since there is a glorious beach in our town for residents only and D’s B’day is in the summer, I see them stumbling there in the dark, D the soberest one (her drinking just began this year in London – she tells me she’s still the soberest one, combination of common sense and a hollow leg) their way lit by the stars and orchestrated by the surf.</p>
<p>I think the turning eighteen was merely incidental.</p>
<p>Mythmom and all – I also find this a welcome haven with friends who “get it” – thank you!!!</p>
<p>S turns 18 four days AFTER the presidential election this year. Not a happy camper, he is. His birthday is on a Sunday night this year – sounds like a good time to bake!</p>
<p>S has been writing internet memes on his AP exam FRQ booklets before he starts writing his answers.</p>
<p>AP’s?? DS seems to be putting them on the “B” list right now. He still has 2 more (next week) , but they arent on his radar screen at the moment. He got his Tulane email address today, so he feels official!
BTW, here is a not-so-good picture of the cake with the graduate under the portico (thanks bethievt) but in this pic, with it all being in white, you can’t really see the thickness of the roof thing, and th poor graduate statue looks like he is in a coffin!! LOL (Chocolate came out much better) [Food</a> & Entertaining](<a href=“http://www.publix.com/food/catalog/ImageDetail.do?id=1153&childId=1]Food”>http://www.publix.com/food/catalog/ImageDetail.do?id=1153&childId=1) Oh, and if anyone happened to notice, it was DS who wanted to cut his cake, not DH. DH is at other kid’s graduation.</p>
<p>Good point acme!!
I replaced the picture with a better, larger one. It looks a little less like a coffin in the new picture, but you are right on with hte RIP HS comment!! LOL!</p>
<p>Too funny - even with the big picture, it is a little coffin-like. Still, it’s a lovely cake, and I’m sure it was delicious, especially in chocolate. I agree jym, everything in better in chocolate. </p>
<p>Owlice - where have you been? We’ve been missing your company as well as all the yummy food you provide. And what’s this about salt? You will explain, won’t you?</p>
<p>Mythmom - I’m not too sure they do the jello shots on the beach thing around here. There is a beach (of sorts) nearby, but not one the kids hang out at. I really haven’t a clue…lol. I’ll ask D and let you know.</p>
<p>mythmom has a point jym - you have cake. The beach is just not that appealing in the pouring rain. </p>
<p>jnsq - thanks for making that connection - I’m a little slow today. It’s all that rain I was hoping for yesterday - it came today instead, making me not want to do anything.</p>
<p>Aw, LIMOM (and the rest of you, and jym’s S’s cake! :D), come on over here and watch Wallace and Gromit with S2 and me. </p>
<p>I was unbelievably grumpy, given the length of my to-do list, when he woke up with too much of a cold for a kindergartener to take to school, but as it happens, inside watching The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is not such a bad place to be. And I can’t see my to-do list from here.</p>
<p>Before long S1 will come home from school, and being exhausted from the AP test plus classes, will want nothing more than to play with S2. And then we can open the bar.</p>
<p>Thanks for the invite, Harriet. I’m sorry you were grumpy this morning. I know how it is when you have a million things to do and it has to be put on hold because your child stayed home from school. I keep forgetting you have such a young one. You are so lucky your teen will play with your kindergartner! Maybe it’s because they’re both boys. </p>
<p>By the way, do you know how long the AP Euro exam is? I forgot to ask!</p>
<p>Three hours plus time for a couple of breaks, if I remember correctly? (This is S1’s first, and it’s been two years since D had them.) I think it comes out to three hours and forty-five min.</p>
<p>Yes, we’re very lucky. S1 is the World’s Best Big Brother (at least, according to S2).</p>
<p>My kids took AP World not AP Euro. Had to know the whole history of the world. That was their first, as sophs. </p>
<p>I have no to-do lists. In my house that what H’s are for. My job is to teach gazillion classes, raise the young’uns (which now means being available for skype chats any time day or night) and be a general muse/factotum. Because my job is so far away and H’s studio is right in town it just “made more sense” for him to do all errands. Don’t you agree? And he LIKES errands.</p>
<p>Well, I do fold laundry and cook. But he does laundry, shops, cleans up and goes to all stores. I do clean, but that doesn’t get on a to-do list because I do that just when I feel like. He cleans, too.</p>
<p>Aw, World’s Best Big Brother. I think that’s quite an honor.</p>
<p>Harriet, I guess you have the same weather we do. My family room has lots of windows and skylights. The perfect place to watch the storm. But I wish I had some little’uns to watch TV with. Perfect excuse. And it’s so much fun. </p>
<p>Harriet, I think S2 was a brilliant idea! A stroke of genius.</p>