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By request, as is the custom in our family on birthdays, we had sushi for dinner. Abby has been planning this for a year, at least.
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Nathan had a piece with extra wasabi... I'll spare you the pictures of him with steam coming out of his ears. Suffice it to say that the rest of us were highly entertained.
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What Abby didn't request was any specific kind of birthday cake.
So I (very thoughtfully) stuck with the sushi theme, and made Matcha cake rolls.
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Lizzi made her obligatory stereotypical-Japanese-tourist-girl-squee-face during the lighting of the candles.
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And Abby was suitably surprised and pleased.
And the candles-who-do-not-lie told us all that she has 5 boyfriends.
Hmmm.
Oh well... happy birthday, Abby!!
Enjoyed your b.d. photos and weeds/grasses in the sunlight. Wanted you to know your poem after the thunder-or was it lightening, touched me: almost made me cry. Good job!
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Thanks Carol :)
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