The Dinner
or
The Party
We all enjoyed the restaurant, and dinner was OK as well, when a restaurant is new there are problems with execution. The never ending supply of fresh bread wasn't, we did manage to get the first small loaf about halfway through dinner. The never ending supply of salad was just that, after 30 minutes of Caesar salad, garden salad with dressing, garden salad without dressing and no bread, all three children were complaining, loudly. At this point they begin slipping under the table, waging minor wars with cutlery, and making tents out of their jackets. The never ending soft drinks are a blessing except the blood sugar levels of the children seemed to be acting as some type of variable capacitor controlling their volume.
Graystonette insisted on Mac and Cheese, they were out, apparently bread nor mac and cheese are staples. She decides to get bowties with alfredo sauce, it seems simple enough but custom pasta causes some problems in the kitchen.
Dinner arrives and we all eat happily, if a little messily. By the time dessert rolls around we have many offers for hot herb bread. Rocks and I have have coffee and the children have ice cream. The staff gathers and sings a song that has nothing to do with birthdays, I think it was the theme song from Bugs Bunny with the words changed around, Rocks gets a fine mug from the restaurant. It is time to go home and dinner for five comes to $150.00 CDN, this is not bad, Rocks and I could have wasted the money on a quiet romantic getaway dinner.
When we get home we have a small gathering for gifts and coffee and cake, I often make the birthday cake and for this birthday I made a pink cherry cake with buttercream frosting and cherry filling, it was all pink with pink flowers and white candles and covered with those little heart candies in pink, white and red.
The proximity of Christmas and my wife's birthday has created a cold war situation, don't get Rocks one gift for her birthday & Christmas, they are separate days, this unwritten rule often exists for those born near Christams Day. In usually buy an assortment of gifts and then decide which ones to wrap for each occasion. I often take the kids shopping, Graystonette seems to know what her mother wants/needs. (I think of her knowledge as wisdom arising from vocal telepathy.)
You would think by now I would know not to take Boy Graystone shopping ! He was there for all of this years purchases but he didn't participate in the wrapping. One of the gifts that we decided to give Mom for Christmas was a new nightgown we bought, so it wasn't wrapped for her birthday.
Boy Graystone was looking on as Rocks was unwrapping the last of her birthday gifts, a candle. and he could be clearly heard making this remark, "What's that, it doesn't look like the nightgown."
The Angels of the Earth contains twenty one Angels. Wilson MacDonald wrote several other books, here is a list taken from the flyleaf of the Angels book.
Out of the Wilderness in 1926
A Flagon of Beauty 1931
The Lyric Year 1952
The Song of the Prairie Land 1918
Caw Caw Ballads 1930
Song of the Undertow 1935
Greater Poems of the Bible 1943.
I am fond of this quote taken from a letter to Wilson;
"I have read a good deal of your poems and I am deeply impressed by their spirit and also by the simplicity and lucidity of your language. I consider you a real artist untouched by the artificiality of the literary fashion of our epoch."
Albert Einstein (excerpt from a letter) |
