Evangeline's Party

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Evangeline’s baby shower. At the Popples’ house, the same place and the same month Collette had her own baby shower already three years ago.

Evengeline was looking well and happy as always. She said that already their chubby baby boy was over eight pounds. He would be another big one.

The Popples ladies had set up everything: platters of vegetables and fruit, pinwheel sandwiches, crackers and cheese, punch, coffee… And Truly had made the cake: covered in zebra-striped fondant with a large lion’s head piped in the corner. The theme was definitely animals from Africa.

The gift pile was towering in green and blue paper, which included no less than five handmade blankets, three of which were made by Susie and Sunrise, and the other, just like Puck’s (but with embroidered African animals instead of jungle animals) from Truly. There was also a pair of earrings from Roo to match the necklace that Judah had purchased in Africa back in 1999 and given to Evangline.

There was also a poem sent to Evangeline from her mother in California, for the occasion.

Back at the Silverspoon’s, Theodore and Izzy were off to the gun show. And OLeif was back after four o’clock from playing violin at the prison ministry. Then everyone adjourned for dinner and the announcement, via Theodore, of OLeif’s and Collette’s tax refund.

That night, Rose came over for fries and root beer, bringing with her Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, during which Collette and Rose argued about whether or not Sinbad lived before or after the time of Christ, and OLeif made silly comments. Collette knew that Sinbad was a fictional legend living after the time of Muhammad. And Rose insisted that because the characters of the film were shocked to see a sail-less ship, that Sinbad, albeit fictional, had lived before the time of Christ.

“Were you home all day today?” Collette asked Rose later.

“Well of course,” she said. “There was a shrew in my room.”

Snuggles had brought it in through her open window.

“It was in there for four hours. Last time he brought one in I accidentally squished it.”

“You’re a good host,” said OLeif.

“Well, they’re kind of delicate.”

“Confrontation with evil could be dangerous.”

— Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger