Today Moo turns 18.
EIGHTEEN.
This holy terror…
is now taller than me, but really no different except that beautiful blonde hair is now black and green.
When I woke this morning she was all ready awake, sitting up in bed all expectant. PRESENTS!
Which is where the fucking with the mind comes in.
Moo has been lusting after a MacBook, desperately hinting and not so hinting at perhaps maybe we, if we loved her at ALL and were good parents, should purchase one for her birthday. And we were all whatever brat, go and put the washing away.
And we bought one. Of course. Cause we are suckers. And just a little bit afraid. I mean LOOK AT THAT PHOTO!
But, you know, we couldn’t make it that easy for her so planted seeds of we couldn’t afford it and maybe she would prefer something more permanent, yada yada.
So last night I wrapped up an old ring case with a note:
OMG you should have seen her face! It was priceless. Totally ‘present face’. You know the face you pull when you really really want something but you get some other shit and you are all ‘Wow! Thankyou! It is just what I wanted!’ and the whole time you are just dying inside.
Kinda like me on every birthday and Christmas. Cause MOTY has NO CLUE when it comes to presents.
Anyway… the note directed her to the hall cupboard and there was the MacBook. The new, shiny, just released MacBook.
*sigh*
And she lost her mind and has been playing on it ever since. She probably wont shower.
Tonight we are going out to dinner with her friends to the place I went to on my 18th birthday. How freaking COOL is that!
And we will be taking along her birthday cake.
A sushi cake with little asian girls, modelled on Kimmidoll.
The sushi is made of fruit rollups, LCM bars, red licorice and jelly snakes
the bowl of ’soy sauce’ and chopsticks are fondant
We have been walking around all day saying ‘So Kawaii’
I am considering dressing as a Harajuku girl. But it wont embarrass her nearly enough for the effort involved.
Happy Birthday Moo. I love you.
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Wishing you a very very happy 18th Moo.
Kel, that cake is amazing. hehehe and i love the present thing.. very funny..
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Happy Birthday Moo, well done on scaring her Kelley- hahahahaha!
Love the cake, looks awesome
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Totally.Absolutely.Awesome cake, Kel!
Happy birthday to Mz Moo!
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Happy Birthday Moo. Now *you* are an adult, you can do as your mother’s title suggests
Happy Birthing Day, Kel.
Hope it’s fabulous.
Also: LOL at birthday face! I have that one down pat!
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Ahh Moo, Happy happy Birthday
I got a MacBook for my birthday too, but it was three weeks after my 21st. So, I understand the sheer joy and love
hhahahaah
I hope she has a fantastic day!
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Happy Birthday Moo!
Kelley – that cake is fantastic! I am so in awe of your cake decorating awesomeness. Plus your ability to really screw with your kids’ minds, especially on their birthday.
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You are awesome. That cake is awesome.
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Happy 18th Moo!
Wow – I’ve found Keira’s next b’day cake. The girl is obsessed with sushi!
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Wow, when you do birthday cake you don’t mess around. I hope Moo has a wonderful birthday. She’ll soon realize that she doesn’t know shit. Haha.
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Happy 18th Moo! & Happy birthing day to you Kelley –
Wow – that cake is awesome who’d have thought of a sushi cake but the masteress !
The present idea was super …keep them guessing.
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Wow, the cake is awesome!
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If you ever get bored of being bored at work, you could always do cakes. I’d buy one for sure!
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Happy birthday moo!
What a fantastic cake. Makes the one I ordered at the local cake shop look really pathetic……enjoy dinner!
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Happy Birthday Moo. Now tear yourself away from the awesome Macbook and go out to dinner.
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Happy birthday Moo! That cake is awesome
Seriously, Awesome.
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You evil mother! I probably would’ve done the same…*evil cackle*. Enjoy Moos birthday dinnery tonight. The cake looks “so kawaii”.
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Happy Birthday Moo!
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I love how your mind works! Bwahaha! If we can’t screw with their heads, what good are teens for anyway? Happy Birthday to Moo! (and congrats to you for making it this far with a teen.)
The cake is awesome!
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Happy Birthday Moo!
That is one fantabulous cake!
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will you be my mother for my birthday? Please. I want a Macbook too!!!! And you could make my cake look like a caravan complete with barbecue.
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I guess it’s belated because I don’t live in Australia and all, but Happy Birthday, Moo! You’re an adult now. They expect you to pay room and board. Or at least help out around the house.
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Oh my god, Kelley, you’re the best mom ever!
Happy Birthday to your girl
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Happy birthday! And that cake? Is the bomb.
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Happy birthday Moo! That cake is the most awesome thing I have ever seen. Ever. Ever ever.
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I am so making that cake – or getting someone else to for my girl’s birthday. Brilliant!
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Adorable cake! And the Macbook is perfect for any 18 year old girl… ER, WOMAN! (Sorry, I just had to say it!)
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What’s with the baby bling?
Run Moo, run, and don’t look back.
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Happy birthday to your Moo! That cake is precious. Can you hook me up with one in a few weeks for my birthday? Oh, and can you school my husband on that second part of the awesome gift giving thing? Thanks!
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You are only NOW fecking with her mind.
I start from birth.
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gorgeous cake. and gorgeous child. good job messing with her!
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When I was 13 I wanted a pair of gray ankle boots (yes, I know, shut up) for Christmas SO MUUUUUUCH that I begged and yelled and threatened and cajoled. Finally my mom ordered them and they arrived and I knew exactly what that box was when I saw it in the Christmas present hiding place that I wasn’t supposed to know about. But even though I KNEW it was the boots, I just HAD to open the box, so I DID, and they were beautiful, and I loved them, and I tried them on and danced around the house in them. THen I put them back in the box and my dumb 13-year-old ass SCOTCH TAPED the box back together because I didn’t know where the masking tape was and it seriously never even occurred to me that my mom *might* be smart enough to figure out that UPS didn’t Scotch tape their packages together.
A few days later, there was the box, all wrapped in shiny paper, under the tree, and it took everything I had not to show that I knew, oh yes, I KNEW.
When Christmas morning came I actually had a talk with myself about acting surprised when I opened them. I practiced my surprised look and gasp! in the mirror. But it turned out, I did NOT need to practice. Because when I opened that motherfucker, it was A FRAMED PICTURE OF MY MOM.
Of course she knew I’d opened the box — OF COURSE she did. So she framed and wrapped a picture of herself to fuck with me.
It worked.
I couldn’t do anything except pretend to be thrilled with a framed picture of my mom. Because anything else would bust me for snooping and opening my boots.
She made me BEG. BEG.
She was, and is, a cruel, cruel woman. Cruel, and AWESOME. I aspire to be her one day.
And this? This is the longest comment EVER.
Happy birthday MOO!
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1) Can you be MY mom?
2) LOVE that Present Face video
Happy Birthday Moo!
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Awesome cake. What a fabulous birthday that must have been!
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Happy birthday Moo. Your Mum is awesome and obviously loves you very much.
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I wish you were MY mom. Kelley, you are an amazingly wonderful woman. I only hope your children realize how truly lucky they are. You rock, Woman! =]
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Fantastic cake! Have the ninja made an appearance this week?
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Moo, if you don’t fall down in appreciation of your mom, I’m flying down there. And it won’t be because I’m sick of the snow already. Can’t believe the cake! Wow! You don’t have a career doing this WHY?
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Late comer…Happy Birthday Moo…now comes the hard part honey, you gotta grow up! Sushi rollups…you are so creative!
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