Comments on: Birthday Cakes throughout the Years

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:34:45 +0000

I LOVED this blog entry! What a hoot! Hmmm… I think I need to start a Memory Lane category on my blog as I go through some of our old pictures while getting ready for our oldest dd’s graduation

By: Jodi

Jodi — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:25:15 +0000

I think they look great and I use those same ingredients! (packaged cake mix, frosting and colorful squirty stuff

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:37:38 +0000

We have a saying in our house: “Once is an event, twice is a tradition.” This is because my wife loves traditions of all shapes and kinds. I’ve lost of the times she has looked at me with an innocent, wistful look, and said: “But of course we are [doing that, going to that party, attending that event, celebrating that occasion] … it is a tradition!

In Kathy’s book, if she can manage to organize our family to do something twice, it has become a full-fledged tradition, with an unassailable position in the Hall of Traditions (a rather crowded virtual Hall).

While I hesitate to create an Orwellian Ministry of Truth monster, one rather devious way to create a tradition would be to stage photos of the supposed event and insert them into the blog, back-dating them so it appeared as though they had happened over the years. Our boys have looked enough alike as toddlers that you could almost pull it off without hiring actors or spending a lot of time in Photoshop.

Great. Now that I’ve made this comment, I’ll have to spend part of every day scanning the blog archives for rogue and spurious traditions.

By: KME

KME — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:05:59 +0000

Yes, De’Etta, but you have the famous (or infamous) Birthday Pig Hat. Really who can top that??? My sister in law gave us a birthday hat (not as unique as yours but it’s up there) for my birthday this past summer and I KEEP forgetting to pull it out for our birthdays. I will need to remember for Daniel’s B-day in April. How do you create a tradition if you don’t ever start???

By: KME

KME — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:04:24 +0000

Yes, Dorothy, we wouldn’t want Duckabushes raising the children. They are a feisty and volatile breed (or half-breed) prone to trouble.

I think Duckabush is just plain fun to say. It’s also great to tell someone over the phone. “How do you spell that, Ma’am?” “Well, just like it sounds - duck a bush.” “Yes, but how do you spell it?”

The Duckabush is a small valley in Washington - barely makes it on the map but it does have a great name full of character!

By: De'Etta

De'Etta — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:00:53 +0000

LOL - great job. Frankly…my cakes well….they never look nearly as nice as David’s. I’m impressed.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:01:40 +0000

Kathy,

That was a hysterical entry!

I think his cake was lovely and I bet he thought so too!

And Tim, being ‘raised in the Duckabush’ sounds way better than being raised By a Dushabush. (Pardon?)

Dorothy

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:28:28 +0000

Hmmmph. Only 25 pictures … you call that a blog?

Happy Birthday, David. He is a well-loved boy, and has had some pretty good years so far. It is strange to notice (looking at furniture placement and doing some mental arithmetic) that we have lived in our current home now for three of his six birthdays … almost half his life, depending on how you count it.

Born in a country hospital during a snowstorm, and only two weeks old at the time of the famous 6.8 Nisqually Earthquake, David’s life seemed off to a rocky start. I thought he would be a ‘Raised in the Duckabush’ kind of boy, but here he is, a sophisticated man of the suburbs, a skilled swimmer and bike rider and well-taught by the children’s BSF program.

A true son of his mother indeed, I think he’ll keep trying to play the “Well, after all, it is my birthday … ” card for another week or so.