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rivkaOkay: that was an incredibly successful party. The mothers-to-be had blitzed, happy expressions on their faces the whole time, and the guests were all overflowing with joy for them.
The food was great. The quiches turned out perfectly, and warming them up at party time went very smoothly. I tried two of three, and they were both good, although next time I make the goat cheese and tomato one I may use a more strongly flavored cheese than chevre. Although I don't know - it was tasty, just subtle. There's plenty of tossed salad left, but the zucchini bread, fruit salad, and punch are pretty much gone. There were two quiches left over, so I guess I overestimated how much people would eat - but I sent the leftovers home with the mothers-to-be, who were grateful to have them. The bakery cake was even cuter than I thought it would be, and tasted delicious. It tasted like a real cake that real people made.
There will be pictures, because people promised to send me copies.
I am sooooo exhausted.
A nice thing about having most of the guests at your party be women in their 50s-70s is that they kept cleaning up, all through the party. We'll have a lot of dishes to wash, but they pretty much kept up with the disposable dishware.
I wasn't precisely sure how the game would go over, but it was a big hit. Except that I seem to have made the questions too easy, because every answer was shouted out immediately - sometimes before I finished reading the question. Even the ones I thought were hard. Oh well - people seemed to have fun with it anyway.
I'm including the quiz under the cut in case anyone wants to play along at home. If you get #12 without Googling, you win - it was a question tailor-made for the specific crowd attending this shower.
1. This unwed teenager’s unplanned pregnancy kicked off a new world religion.
2. This Baltimore mother was America’s first native-born saint.
3. This early feminist, the wife and mother of U.S. Presidents, warned her husband that “all men would be tyrants if they could.”
4. This nursery rhyme mother contributed to overpopulation problems by having “so many children she didn’t know what to do.”
5. This political mother’s daughter campaigned for her during the primaries.
6. This mother is the personification of environmental forces.
7. This celebrity mother just gave birth to twins after adopting several children from developing countries.
8. Depending on your politics, this mother-to-be is either a prime example of family values, or a prime example of the failure of abstinence-based education.
9. This literary child of Louisa May Alcott was the mother of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
10. This lesbian mother and talk-show host has adopted several children from foster care, and is an activist for same-sex family adoption.
11. This nursery rhyme mother kept inadequate provisions on hand to feed her pets.
12. These mothers went all the way to the Maryland Supreme Court fighting for the freedom to marry.
13. This childless mother provided health care and social services to the poor in India.
14. This royal mother of King Richard the Lion-Hearted had her mothering skills showcased in the movie The Lion in Winter.
15. This iconic 1970s TV mother presided over a large blended family.
16. This mother was a labor organizer, who now has a left-wing magazine named after her.
The food was great. The quiches turned out perfectly, and warming them up at party time went very smoothly. I tried two of three, and they were both good, although next time I make the goat cheese and tomato one I may use a more strongly flavored cheese than chevre. Although I don't know - it was tasty, just subtle. There's plenty of tossed salad left, but the zucchini bread, fruit salad, and punch are pretty much gone. There were two quiches left over, so I guess I overestimated how much people would eat - but I sent the leftovers home with the mothers-to-be, who were grateful to have them. The bakery cake was even cuter than I thought it would be, and tasted delicious. It tasted like a real cake that real people made.
There will be pictures, because people promised to send me copies.
I am sooooo exhausted.
A nice thing about having most of the guests at your party be women in their 50s-70s is that they kept cleaning up, all through the party. We'll have a lot of dishes to wash, but they pretty much kept up with the disposable dishware.
I wasn't precisely sure how the game would go over, but it was a big hit. Except that I seem to have made the questions too easy, because every answer was shouted out immediately - sometimes before I finished reading the question. Even the ones I thought were hard. Oh well - people seemed to have fun with it anyway.
I'm including the quiz under the cut in case anyone wants to play along at home. If you get #12 without Googling, you win - it was a question tailor-made for the specific crowd attending this shower.
1. This unwed teenager’s unplanned pregnancy kicked off a new world religion.
2. This Baltimore mother was America’s first native-born saint.
3. This early feminist, the wife and mother of U.S. Presidents, warned her husband that “all men would be tyrants if they could.”
4. This nursery rhyme mother contributed to overpopulation problems by having “so many children she didn’t know what to do.”
5. This political mother’s daughter campaigned for her during the primaries.
6. This mother is the personification of environmental forces.
7. This celebrity mother just gave birth to twins after adopting several children from developing countries.
8. Depending on your politics, this mother-to-be is either a prime example of family values, or a prime example of the failure of abstinence-based education.
9. This literary child of Louisa May Alcott was the mother of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
10. This lesbian mother and talk-show host has adopted several children from foster care, and is an activist for same-sex family adoption.
11. This nursery rhyme mother kept inadequate provisions on hand to feed her pets.
12. These mothers went all the way to the Maryland Supreme Court fighting for the freedom to marry.
13. This childless mother provided health care and social services to the poor in India.
14. This royal mother of King Richard the Lion-Hearted had her mothering skills showcased in the movie The Lion in Winter.
15. This iconic 1970s TV mother presided over a large blended family.
16. This mother was a labor organizer, who now has a left-wing magazine named after her.
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Date: 2008-10-18 07:18 pm (UTC)2) No idea
3) Eleanor Roosevelt? No idea really. Hardly "early" really. I give up.
4) The old woman who lived in a shoe. Had 'em all on her own too. ALL her fault.
5) Hilary Clinton?
6) Gaia?
7) Angelina Jolie?
8) Sarah Palin
9) Marmee March
10) Something beginning with E?
11) Hubbard
12) Not Loving, then. I give up.
13) Teresa, died same day as Princess Di, no-one seemed to notice.
14) No idea.
15) The Brady Bunch. Marcia?
16) No idea again.
Hm. I might post it in my own LJ in a day or two, see whether it's a pondian difference, or just my own personal ignorance.
(This mother was the first female president of one republic, which hasn't elected a male president since, and jacked it in early to take up the job of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.)
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Date: 2008-10-18 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-18 11:46 pm (UTC)Not a chance.
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Date: 2008-10-19 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 11:30 pm (UTC)Put him in a T-shirt and jeans, and you'd not be able to pick him out of a crowd at a science fiction convention.
And his wife was in every way his equal. She was just as smart, but significantly more practical -- she ran the business side of the family farm; he studied a lot of the research and science in agriculture, but she was the one to actually make it work. They worked as a team their whole life, and their letters to one another were found in their archives, and they are some of the most romantic letters ever -- up there with Abelard and Heloise. Partially because they're not INTENDED to be romantic -- it's just how they think of each other. This isn't an actual example, but you could imagine one of them writing something like, "Don't forget -- we agreed that we'd try that new fertilizer to increase the production of apples in that orchard where your hair shines so brightly." That sort of thing -- they were business partners, and lovers.
10 is Ellen deGeneres (spelling approximate), so you're write about the "E" thing.
14 is Eleanor of Aquitaine, portrayed by Katherine Hepburn in the movie. Portrayed by
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Date: 2008-10-18 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 07:36 pm (UTC)14 Eleanor of Aquitaine
16 Mother Jones
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Date: 2008-10-18 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 07:46 pm (UTC)6. Mother Nature
8. Bristol Palin
10. Ellen DeGeneres?
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Date: 2008-10-18 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 08:32 pm (UTC)2. Mother Elisabeth Seaton, both a birth mother and a religious mother
8. Bristol Palin, Sarah's daughter and a mother in her own right
10. Rosie O'Donnell
15. Carol Tyler Martin Brady. I watched way too much TV
I think I got them all except 12.
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Date: 2008-10-18 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-19 05:17 am (UTC)