I'm Still Cool

*Remember when cool was having a brand new 64 box of crayons  with a sharpener built in? 

*Remember when cool was those shiny black shoes with a clicky heel?

*Remember when cool was a new  bike with a banana seat and streamers on the handlebars?

*Remember when cool was the micro mini dress? How about a maxi dress?

*Remember when cool was peanut pants and body suits?

*Remember when cool was when that cute boy noticed you? The jock....or the bad boy?

*Remember when cool was big, stiff hair and leg warmers?

*Remember when cool was letting the kids make their own pizzas on sleepover nights?

*Remember when cool was being the mom who let all the kids hang out in the basement?

*And now, cool means being the grandmom who makes the very best T-Rex shaped pancakes in the whole world and making ice cream cone cupcakes for no reason at all.

Music Box Dancers - Unbelievable!

Well, a funeral yesterday and oral surgery today, non-stop fun and excitement around here just now. I think I'll be back to normal shortly.

Have you seen these incredible children, ages about 6-7, doing their dance routine? It's from Russia so you won't be able to understand what they are saying but it doesn't matter. This will blow you away.

It's a Mario Party!

This weekend was my grand-daughter's (aka buggy) 5th birthday! Did she want ponies or princesses or even Dora the Explorer??? No. She wanted Super Mario and all the man eating plants and killer mushrooms that come along with him.

Of course I myself am a closet Mario fan. I remember buying my kids the original Nintendo system when it came only to find myself alone ... in the dark .... at 1am ... obsessed with making past Bowser and onto that flag pole!

So I couldn't resist ... Jen and I stole an idea from a google image search and decided to make Mario cupcakes!

I was afraid they might be really difficult but they ended up being much easier (and more fun) than I ever expected. We used regular icing for the light blue (since it tastes so good mmmm) and fondant for the actual characters. It was all done free-hand except for the stars; we did use a cookie cutter for those. We also discovered a super-cool icing marker for the classic mario-character eyes!

Buggy loved 'em! I think everyone else did too .... what do you think?

Plus Poppy dressed up like Mario himself!

Idiot's Delight

If you are a parent you can identify with the following definition.

IDIOT'S DELIGHT-

An attack of temporary imbecility suffered by a two year old child normally regarded as a genius, and occurring at such a time as to make her mother look like even more of an imbecile than she is. The two year old, when alone with the mother, may be able to read newspapers, recite Hamlet, and figure Dow-Jones averages in her head, but upon the arrival of company and being asked by her mother to show off her genius, she will develop a vacant stare and a slack mouth and be unable to remember her own name.

B.M. Atkinson Jr.