After dinner we will come back here for a ColdStone Creamery birthday cake. She has picked out some strange flavor but I'm sure it will taste very good since everything ColdStone does is very good.
I got her an assortment of smaller gifts: a stick blender, some nice colanders, a kitchen timer, some cool kitchen shears shaped like a woodpecker from Target, some new toss pillows, and a whole bunch of packaged food items for her kitchen since she & BF are church mouse poor at this point. Oh yeah - the pillows are for the sofa we gave her last week when her "rescue" sofa bit the dust. So I think she'll be happy.
This is my bright & beautiful daughter who, while growing up, was always about a year or two behind in her social/emotional developement. This all the while she was the tallest & most mature looking kid in her class - a difficult combination. She also had a 16 month younger brother with autism and unfortunately this also marked her as "different" so she (and we) all had our struggles during her childhood. But Tom & I were proud of her then, and we're so proud of her now. She is an admirable, honest human being & her heart is in the right place. Happy Birthday April!
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She's beautiful Swami! And Happy Birthday to April!
The Bisquick drop bisquits on the side of the box is the Red Lobster bisquits. With some cheese and parsley added and then brushed with melted butter with garlic salt. *grin
I want you to shop with Rob for my birthday gifts! :)
Yeah, that recipe is about 92% of the goodness of genuine Red Lobster biscuits. The recipe from that website that gives out the "secret" recipes from many restaurants/fast food places has another recipe that is 95% of the original. I think RL uses a particular & very fresh baking powder that I can't/won't be bothered to get. My mom was an excellent baker and she had a whole big thing about quality & freshness of baking powder.
Oh Swami!Happy Birthday to April! MMM...Red Lobster is very yummy!
I'm glad to hear she turned out great. Sounds like my Jack, behind socially yet so tall and mature looking. I worry so much.
I cry all the time both inside and out when I hear of children being treated as "different". You did a wonderful job with your kids.
*smooch*
What a beautiful daughter she is, Swami! You are a great mom.
Mmmm, cheddar bay biscuits. I agree with something not quite being exact about the other recipes out there. I think it also has something to do with the copius amounts of butter brushed on top.
Living with a family of under-developed palates is beneficial sometimes. Especially when some (ok, a lot) of the biscuits get eaten before they arrive home. :)
Dinner was great! Mr Swami was late so we ordered an appetizer to fill in time - and thus I discovered the lovely Lobster Pizza! Which should have a better name so pizza-loathing people like me know to order it!
Rob shops? Good for him! Mr Swami picks things up at Walgreens - his idea of a shopping mall.
Kim - maybe they have special butter? Biscuits were very big last night and I had 2& 1/2 of them. We had a total of 16 biscuits delivered for our party of 4. April's BF can really put away the biscuits!
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