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Super Mario Bros. Giant Wall Decals

via www.birthdayexpress.com

Would love to see these on the wall at Seth's 8th birthday party.

Simple truths need repeating

Harvard Business Review article gives Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything, along with interesting reasons why these steps work.

You can still find me elsewhere.

Hello Vox. I can still be found at glchoate.com as well as twitter and flickr. Really sorry to see you all go. Even though I quit posting to VOX a while back, I've continued to get updates of your posts and even leave comments occasionally, which speaks for itself. VOX has been a truly unique place to be. I will try to track y'all if you leave links behind in the coming weeks.

~ Jawja

Mardi Gras Father/Daughter dance dubbed the best one in years.

I thought that dealing with massive amounts of near boiling liquid would intimidate me, but it didn't. I made it clear to Seth and Arwen not to touch the coffee urns in the kitchen because they were extremely HOT and could BURN them badly. I don't pussyfoot around when putting the proper amount of fear into my children.

After the dance started, a man passed by our table with his coffee cup and said to the father beside me serving, "This stuff is nasty." Why am I printing this? Because I'm certain that in my anxiety to please, my imagination got away from me, and no decent man would say this to the people serving. If it is true, I can only hope that he wakes in a sweat in the middle of the night at what a thoughtless comment he made.

All went smoothly. My beverage/food partner, Carrie, did a great job on the rice and beans and the beignets. We also had a popcorn machine. Everyone was happy. The girls were really letting lose by the end, even though the mint juleps were virgin. One of the mothers quoted a father saying, "This is his ninth Father/Daughter Girl Scout dance and he was raving about how well organized the dance was. He loved the theme and the appropriate decorations and activities. He said the the troop did an excellent job...."

This website helped. http://gumbopages.com/food/beverages/cafe-au-lait.html It needed twice the sugar, especially for the 10 year old's palate. And it's quite good.

I started on the cafe au lait as my headache was coming back and, surprise! 3 kids knockin' on door, actually, 4 kids. Somehow we acquired another!

So far:

~ equal parts brewed chicory and milk
~ 1heaping tsp. sugar per 6 oz. serving
Coffee pot makes 10-6 oz. servings.
Should need 50 pot servings for 100 people.
Coming together, relaxing a bit.

Coming out of a three day headache, btwn today and tomorrow, I have to make 6 gallons of chicory cafe au lait, 14 gallons virgin mint juleps, and 20 cups of rice. 200 people to feed at the Girl Scout Father/Daughter Dance (Mardi Gras themed this year!). I will be mortified if they hate it. So it made perfect sense to go birthday shopping today, pour moi. I love February. Truly.

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QotD: Liar Liar

What is the biggest lie you've told?

I've never lied.  ;-)