Laurel Street Bakery had a special cookie decorating event on Sunday. We found out about it a few weeks ago and marked it on the calendar.
We had fun! It was so fun that we were even able to ignore the local Mother Mafia, who decended on the Bakery en masse a few minutes after we arrived. 
Will made 6 cookies. He used candy corn to make eyes on his pumpkin and stood up the corn rather than laying it down. Several kids noticed and followed Will’s example. A trend setter at 2. Happy Halloween!
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eli | 01-Nov-06 at 10:18 am | Permalink
What exactly is a mother mafia?
Holly | 01-Nov-06 at 1:11 pm | Permalink
Paul calls them the “maternal mafia.” I don’t, as I don’t see them as particularly maternal.
They are a group of trophy wives who loiter en masse at neighborhood spots with their kids. Usually, they are annoyingly loud in their gossip, which generally involves either their book club or their husbands’ jobs. They tend to completely ignore their kids (even when the child is doing something like peeing on a slide in the park). Paul and I have tried to be friendly to this group since our arrival two years ago. We remain invisible. Sometimes they are downright rude.
I just have a low tolerance for people that say things like, “I don’t know if I want to go back to the Bahamas this year. The resort is nice, but you have to drive by all those DIRTY HUTS with POOR people. I just don’t know how they can live like that.”