Kevin’s mom couldn’t make it to Kavi’s Sweet 16 party, but very kindly treated her (and her mom and aunties) to mani-pedis in preparation for the event. Kavi got extension (press-on) nails for the first time — she’d been trying to grow her own long, and had broken one just a few days before), and […]
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We’re a little harried with party prep, but Sharmila got us all Thai food from Mama Thai around the corner and we stuffed ourselves. Not fancy Thai, but solid and reasonably priced. Sharmila lives in DC, and my second cousin Lakshi lives in Toronto; I think they were a little jealous of our local restaurant
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For Kavi’s final in culinary class, she had to make biscuits. She brought one home for me, and she’d better get an A! Yum.
Anand, trying to manage two eight year old cousins and one nine year old third cousin: “…I will turn this hammock around!”
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My dad arrived yesterday for Kavi’s party; we came over to Roshani’s house this morning for tea and treats with her father.
She informed me this morning that she’d been researching what you get to do at sixteen, and she is now old enough to drive (she takes her test next week, eep), and also old enough to get married (but her sweetie is still fifteen, so she can’t actually marry them yet). I think she’s wrong
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Well, I didn’t get through ALL the computer work on my list, but the vast majority of it, and I got an extension on the last thing ’til tomorrow, so when my brain starting melting at 3 p.m. — teatime is usually about my limit — I switched to baking for Kavi’s party instead. Kevin
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The kids were only a little complain-y about all the sod lifting and rolling, and as a thank you, I built them a fire and pulled out the s’mores fixings. I also had discovered the badminton supplies during the garage clear-out earlier this week, so we did some of that too (mostly avoiding the newly-sodded
When we got the sod home — we’re repairing the giant dead circle created by three years of backyard pool — the kids kindly rolled it out. They tolerated me recording them, briefly.
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Another little thingie from Etsy for Kavi’s party — I think we’ll put these in the gift bags. Supposedly when you light them, the mehndi pattern ends up floating on top of the melted wax, but I haven’t tried them out yet. That would make them even cooler.
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