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This week, my Dad has been straightening something out with his Life Insurance policies and has had to email my brothers and I about it…and I just don’t like it! I don’t know about you, but my Daddy is going to live forever. See that’s me, in the corner, believing this.

MY DADDY!!!!!

Today is my parents’ 32nd wedding anniversary!! I actually remembered (BEFORE I got your reminder email, Mom. Geez, have some faith! ) In past years, the actual event / day has been July SECOND, The day in which I remember and go D’OH! and  call and apologize. It was a big event when we were kids – starting from when I was 12 or so, we started to make my parents these elaborate 5 course (hopefully edible? dinners.) I’d plan a menu, my Mom would drop us off at the store for the goods, then we’d kick them out of a house to a movie or something and when they returned – we’d serve them dinner in our little fake restaurant. I think I made Dan and Tim be servers / slaves. I remember it being basically the FUNNEST THING EVER, from drawing the menu’s, to setting the tables, to roasting cornish hens (I know I did this, how did I do that??) The above picture pretty much grabs it, reflects my dedication and enthusiasm. Except of course, sadly, I am not Asian. Thanks a LOT, Mom and Dad.

 Happy Father’s Day to this guy!

I honestly can’t say enough good things about my Dad. As I’ve gotten older, he’s morphed from a Dad-person who gives me talking-to’s in his study, to a buddy, advisor and confidante who I can call anytimes with questions, and good news. Also The older I get, the more I realize the sacrifices he has made to provide for his family,  Making big, beautiful Christmases happen, college tuition, love and support, and the occasional airplane and motorcycle. As if it weren’t enough that he works his hiney?  off as both a lawyer and a Senator, he is also truly supportive of his kids, and also cleans up real nice:

Love you Dad!

Also, if you haven’t checked out Senator Blogstetter, you need to get there, immediately. Apparently this whole thing is a link, and a long one. Hmm. I don’t know why. 

My little brother Dan OWNS A HOUSE. WHAT??? This blows my mind, this ‘home ownership.’ He is even ‘flipping it’ which means he’s made it much more awesome, re-done the wood floors and painted the walls a lovely carolina blue, as the previous tenant was clearly insane and made everything yellow, pink and plaid. Houses have basements, yards and honeysuckle bushes and cute little gates. Dan likes to look out upon his yard and pretend he is Thoreau. Since my parents babysat the house while he was in Afghanistan, it’s still in great shape, and ONLY requires mom’s attention SOMETIMES, especially when it comes to Where to hang family portraits. (IN THE MOST PROMINENT PLACE IN THE HOUSE.)

Until I have the babies (I can do this in my 50′s, right?) I shall live vicariously through the babies of friends and loved ones! And so, CONGRATULATIONS! to my sweet cousin Ella, on her new son, Daniel Thomas Bray Rice. Daniel being a family name – after her Dad, my Mom’s brother, and the name of my brother as well. Well played, Ella.  Love to you, and can’t wait to meet him!

I am no longer a child, and I do not HAVE children, so I am stuck in this unbetween place where I can enjoy child-like things, but it must be loaded with, you know, irony. Jocey is hosting an easter-egg hunt at her parent’s house in Westchester today. No kids allowed, of course. And so, I thought I’d make and bring the Bunny cake of my youth, Chuck, which my Mom taught me how to make. Please note how the second cake, when cut into a bow-tie, leaves two perfect ears. Genius.

 To piggyback on my comment re: buying things, I think that I also blog to remind myself that I am alive. So, hello there, heart and lungs and wordpress, and the forcing of innocent people to hear about my Day! (Which was grand. My mom and my aunt are here. We had lobster at southstreet seaport and some of us who will remain nameless but are not myself accidentally got a little tipsy. So then naturally we went bra and shoe shopping and then had ice cream sundaes.) And that is what happened today because, well, I am alive.

 Today’s my Dad’s 54th birthday!! I’m sure he’s probaby throwing a rager, partying til the break of dawn. Why, look at him labor over this menu!

EXTREME MENU STUDYING!!!! Love you Dad, Happy Birthday!!