Wednesday February 20, 2008

Best Part of the Day-
Going to Cousin Kelly's for Thai food and some wine for din. (Just Scarlet and me as Liam goes to bed quite early and Will-O wanted to watch B-ball). The kids played crazily well together (and dance and sang--"break it down, now..." literally came out of K's 7 year-old's mouth in perfect time to Scarlet's beat box). The ladies talked and ate. Very enjoyable and home by 8:30pm.

Worst Part of the Day-
Kelly refused to keep the DQ ice cream cake that we brought over for dessert so in the car it went. As I drove home I thought I could just leave it in the backseat overnight as it is -4 degrees outside and then bring it to work tomorrow for the always hungry co-workers to gobble up (an effort to not tempt my newly vegan husband, too).
As were pulled into the driveway and started to collect our respective bags, my ever helpful child said "I'll get the cake, Mom" and started to try to lift the heavy treat. I went over to intervene with 2 bags on my arms and managed to pick up the flimsy plastic top only. Yikes. I could feel the cake falling and my instinct was to try to grab it and fold my body so it wouldn't fall to the ground. The end result was much creamy goodness smashed onto my coat, scarf, mittens and jeans. Scarlet laughed innocently and said "I thought that only happened on t.v. shows!" Me too.
Well at least no one is tempted by any dairy yumminess now.