Today I have been…
referee
food source
playmate
enforcer
teacher
counselor
maid
cook
waitress
secretary
nurse
translator
spiritual advisor
I have embodied…
elation
frustration
confusion
indifference
agitation
amusement
contradiction
self-control
recklessness
resourcefulness
I am…
a basket case
a glutton for punishment
a woman of privilege
a mother
doing it again tomorrow
The Lunchroom Bandit reviews a summer time favorite, while I discuss it’s favorite mate.
Ice Cream
Wow! This is my favorite ice-cream store is Baskin Robins! Well first they have a ice-cream that is called America’s Birthday cake. It’s vinila ice-cream blue frasting and sprenkls in it. Next they have a ice-cream that is called tropicol ice. It tasty like tropicol fruit and fruit punch. Last I have another favorite ice-cream store Clumpies Ice-cream Co*. My favorite ice-cream is pop rock. It is blue ice-cream with pop rocks on it. And those are my favorite ice-cream store and ice-cream.
—LRB
*Clumpies is located on Frazier Ave. in Chattanooga, TN. If you go, say “hi” to Anthony.
Cake
Mmmm. I love cake. I love to make cake and I love to eat cake, with ice cream, of course. So here is a pictorial history of some of my most memorable cakes. (well, the ones I’ve captured in digital form, that is.)
First up, the kidney cake of 2006. This was made by our dear friend Mo to celebrate the anniversary of Will’s kidney transplant. (Grandma Kathy was his kidney donor). It says “Yipee! It’s your anniversary. I love you Will” And yes, it is in the shape of a kidney and yes, that’s a red licorice ureter. I haven’t asked Mo if she’s ever done any other organs, or perhaps armadillos???
Next we have the Barbie cake I made for Mo’s birthday a year and a half earlier. She said she’d always wanted one when she was a little girl and I figured, who says you have to be a little girl to get a Barbie cake?!
Here is the birthday cake I made for Will and Aaron this year while we were in Kentucky. I did not have all my cake-makin’ stuff available, but it didn’t matter because it had “Wightming Naqueen” on it, and that was all that was necessary to make my boys happy.
And finally, here is the cake I made (at home with all my cake makin’ stuff) for our friend Stephen’s 7th birthday. He loves gummy worms, so, if you look closely, you can see that they are crawling out the sides of the cake. F.M. admitted later to me that this kind of grossed him out. Ha!!! I was really proud of this cake, I should consult the Lunchroom Bandit for the perfect ice cream to accompany it.
—L.D.