We celebrated John's 65th birthday on the evening of the 4th of July. Jackie decided to serve giant frosting decorated sugar cookies instead of cake. Because there was no cake, so decided to cut a cantaloupe in half, cover it with tin foil and poke about a dozen sparklers in the cantaloupe for the candles. The lighting ceremony took place in the kitchen while the rest of us waited anxiously around the dining room table for the "cake" to arrive. All of us were expecting a great tragedy to befall the party festivities. Luckily, the "cake" arrived in one piece in the dining room and no one was burned, singed or otherwise maimed. After Happy Birthday was sung and the sparklers went out, John even smiled (or at least I think he did since there was a thick cloud of smoke filling the house at this point). And our cookies were delicious despite the tiny flecks of black metal on the frosting.
2 comments:
Love the sparklers! I think there are also candles that one can buy that do the same sort of thing...minus the "expectations" of some kind of tragedy!
Next year...we can only hope...and pray.
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