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Okay: 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.

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[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

And boy do we have Catholic stuff named after Seton down here. The closest is a school about a half-mile from my condo.