Bring December babies! 
This past weekend, with lots of help from Kat and a cast of a few dozen others (thank you thank you and you know who you are!!) my home was transformed into a party zone for Jenni’s baby shower. The menu was very straightforward: chocolate, chocolate and chocolate! We did have some veggies thrown in to make us feel better and Mirella made these amazing cranberry-and-something-or-other meatballs and there was lots of fruit for dipping in the chocolate fondue, of course. 
Speaking of sweets, I do have a picture to show you of the cake and cookies that we had. Both are from Amphora Bakery which makes some totally decadent stuff! The cookies are butter cookies with royal icing. Sounds simple, eh? Well, try one and you’ll think otherwise! The cake is a three layer chocolate cake with milk chocolate mousse in between the layers. Drooling yet? This is the smallest version of the cake and it’s meant to serve 18-20 people. With all the other food we had, we figured it would be fine for the 25 we were expecting. Can you believe we only managed to eat the canopy of the carriage?!? Jenni got lots of practical and, of course, adorable stuff and she’ll be taking all the pictures I took home with her tonight as her dial up just won’t let her download 27.8 meg (zipped) of pictures. *grins* She smiled a whole lot and modeled lots of sweet clothes on her belly. Lucky for me, she also took her singing balloon home which made my daughters go, “Rats!”
And now, this morning’s grumble… Windows deemed that I needed a security update. Ok, that’s fine with me. I was however, in the middle of something when it asked me if it wanted to “restart now.” So, I said, “No, I’ll restart later.” I did some more typing and then got up to finish packing lunches for my twin goobers and shuffle them off to the bus stop. I’m in the kitchen and I hear the unmistakable sound of my computer restarting. “Hey!” I say from the kitchen. “I said I would restart you later. When I say later, I mean MY later, not YOUR later.”
My husband, who’s switched from a PC to a MacBook, is quite amused by my situation, and tells me how I’m owned by Microsoft and scoots his way out the door to class.
There’s some serious thought to be put into switching to a computer who’s latest OS is based in Linux.
oh look i can comment now… it wouldn’t let me the other day..
love the cake, way to cute and way delicious sounding… but i want the fondue!!!
and i love that your computer took charge… well actually no i don’t it is scary but you know what i mean…
as long as paul works for the department and we get all the pc/microsoft stuff for free i guess i will be using a PC but paul is talking about an ugrade early next year!
Sounds like you all had a great time. I’m glad that all your hard work payed off, but I’m guessing you are happy that is all over now so you can rest
As to your PC, well, I only use them at work now. I’m a mac convert too. If your hubby persists in laughing at you you can always tell him you are going to replace the home pc with a mac. They are very cool, just ask Vicky
I think what drives me crazy is when you click that you’ll “restart later” and it keeps asking every 5 minutes if you want to restart. So irritating!!
OMG….I think I just gained 5 pounds just looking at that cake. Help….i have to go work out now; thanks Sue (giggle)
Glad to hear that it was a great success. You all put a lot of work into it.
As for the computer, be happy that you are not on Vista as I hear that is one big horror story. I hear only good things about Linux (evil grin) — no, your hubby did not pay me to say that!