life in this republic

 breakfast for dinner

Last night we kicked off our autumn break with a party at our house with all our school chums. It was a "Breakfast for Dinner" party and everyone pitched in. Danny made a bacon, egg, mushroom and onion frittata, Eleanor brought fruit salad, Hormoz made sweet and spicy french toast, Richard made good ol' fashioned pancakes and Sami made maple syrup flavoured cupcakes festooned with mini waffle bits and a piece of bacon. They were out of this world. There were shmears galore: nutella, nugeta, butter, syrups, berries to sprinkle, yogurt to drizzle and bacon to crunch. A fire in the fireplace, candles lit in every nook and cranny and a showing of "An Idiot Abroad" while we ate.

Then we played SmallWorld...

...and a late-night round of Taboo.

It was an awesome time with friends.

We also took this opportunity to celebrate Hormoz's and Rob's birthdays. Rebekah made for them a custom-designed and hand-drawn set of Pokemon cards and I purchased some chocolate for each of them. Hormoz is easy, normal chocolate for him, but Rob can't have chocolate so I looked instead for a good white chocolate. I found a well-priced bar at our local Makro.

Lindt is a good brand.

Having just gotten home with my purchases, I laid them on the table and went off to get wrapping paper. I descended the stairs just in time to witness Rebekah opening the white chocolate bar meant for Rob. "HALT and desist!" I shout. My firstborn was peeling back the wrapper with intent to eat. She looked at me and in her own defence said, "Wha? This isn't for me?" or some other nonsense. But, felicity was the theme of the day as someone else had previously desecrated this holy chocolate ground whilst Makro was still its home. There was at least a third of the bar missing and it had been so deftly re-wrapped that even my spidey senses had not detected it. Some hungry Makro shopper had chosen to slake his hunger with my future white chocolate purchase. I am so very thankful that Rebekah tried to eat it as it would have been infinitely worse to have given this bar as a gift and have the giftee open it to reveal our shame. So, kudos to Rebekah for pretending that all chocolate is purchased exclusively for her!