My daughter made a strawberry cheesecake today and let our cat lick cream off the whisk she'd used.

My oldest son filmed it:

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Today we've got a double feature birthday party (youngest and oldest are turning 16 and 20 respectively, omg, let me digest that knowledge for a moment...) so I've been cooking this morning and we expect the first guests any moment now. This means I won't be online today. Again. Maybe a bit later this evening ( Read more... )

My daughter and I had midnight tickets and both took a day off today, which turned out to be a good idea *yawns hugely*

( My first reactions behind a spoiler cut. )

Just came home from visiting my parents for my dad's birthday. Am now going to watch the finale of the world cup football final between The Netherlands and Spain ( Read more... )

This whole evening is turning out completely different than I expected. Long story. My conclusions so far ( Read more... )

Tomorrow my daughter will go to an anime convention. Since it's very near where we live she's having 3 friends over who are also going. Her room is too small for them all to fit in, so the four of them are going to camp in the living room ( Read more... )

I'm behind on my resquee pic spams and won't be able to watch tonight either since my youngest is hogging the living room for his birthday sleepover party*). But... I'm having a whole week off! So after this weekend I'll get caught up with my fandom stuff and do some household chores I hadn't been coming around to lately \o ( Read more... )

This afternoon we'll be leaving for our yearly long weekend with the family; Mr. RC's parents, his sister and two brothers with spouse, our own kids including oldest's girlfriend and a whole load of nephews and nieces. There's already been a lively emailing back-and-forth about who brings what and who is going to cook when mixed with general ( Read more... )

The football club of my youngest son has organized a 4 day international football tournament, which means his team played against Dutch, English and Russian teams today and we're host for 2 German boys. At first they were almost painfully shy, but tonight my son and his team mates had organized a match between them and their German guests and they ( Read more... )

My oldest son got his drivers license some weeks ago and bought his first car from his own money yesterday. Time goes by too freaking fast I tell you!!