Midriff Muse

Live from the Gold Carpet!

You probably expected to see this post early Monday morning, as I also fully expected to have it completed. This year’s Oscar celebration had a lot of elements that were rushed, but by 9pm Sunday all the rush was gone out of me and as of today, Wednesday afternoon, I still have a tender tummy and buzzing headache due to some sort of little bug that has taken up residence in my anatomy. I do, however, have enough focus and concentration to bring to you an accounting of our annual dress-up and food fest gathering to view the Oscars.

The rushed nature of this year’s events had to do with the fact that Shannon is nearing the completion of her 10th and final season of cheerleading. Her squad was performing in a competition in Wisconsin Dells (2 hours drive from here) on Sunday at 12:20 and 4:20. I drove to Madison Sunday morning, picked up Katie and the two of us traveled on to see the 12:20 performance, have lunch with Shannon and head back to Waukesha. Shannon is normally the chief engineer of the hand-dipped in chocolate strawberries feature of the festivities and Katie and I were determined not to let the ball drop on that one. We got home around 4:00 with our hair and make up still to be done and managed to keep chocolate melting in the double boiler pot and tag teamed the dipping while the other worked on becoming camera ready.

Our table was completed with efforts by our cohorts. Amongst the offerings: a sweet potato roulade prepared by Megan Watling (seen in the pictures wearing her gorgeous green vintage prom dress and speaking of vintage, that is a vintage hat my daughter Katie is wearing from her collection). My dear friend Peggy Bull contributed some “sensible”protein with tuna and egg salads with crackers and a beef stew topped with dumplings. Debra (Megan’s mom) took care of the flowers, sparklin juice, salad and some frozen miniature creme puffs and eau clairs for back up sweets.

….. I am feeling under the weather again, so I am just going to load up the rest of the pictures, we always take one of just the Moms and just the daughters and then the mother/daughter combos. Shannon was not able to join us until later in the evening due to her competition (Thanks to her Dad who was returning from up north and able to make it to her 4:20 performance and bring her home.) She opted, understandably, this year to remain ungowned, but still looked elegant in her competition hair bow and championship sweatshirt.

Okay so just the Moms: