So today is Mother's Day ... according to Wikipedia, we Americans thugged the idea off the Brits (something we've been doing for AGES, starting with the colors of our flag) and then changed the date from the fourth Sunday of Lent to the second Sunday of May. (Pretty decent idea, that - how are you going to treat your mom during a period of denial?)
Mark and the darlings were most happy to do whatever I wanted to do, which is ever so rare. I responded first with a blatant misuse of that "anything you want today" - I slept till nearly 1:00, which isn't something that happens unless I'm quite ill!
After the snooze-fest, we went to LaserQuest, where it was free for moms (but not till after 1:00 ... so, you see, that lie-in wasn't TOTALLY me being slothful, it was really saving my family from crushing boredom ... just another example of selfless mom-ness). In our family, I came second to Mark, but I'd never been there before, so I felt pretty good about it! It was kind of frustrating at the beginning, but once I got the hang of it (and found a neat sniper spot on an upper level), it wasn't so bad. Don't get me wrong, now; I won't be paying to go, most likely, but it was okay and everyone enjoyed it.
Having fired and been fired upon, we went to Josette's Pets for my Official Mother's Day Gift. I can't tell you about it yet because I haven't introduced you to that aspect of life, but I will do that soon. Promise.
The Official Mother's Day Gift required fairly immediate stashing back at the hacienda. Once we'd finished that, though, we buzzed Nana and demanded that she and Charlie meet us at Abuelo's for dinner. Nana hemmed and hawed a bit, but once I reminded her that, as firstborn, it was I that qualified her as a mom in the first place, she shut up about my kid brother having rung to say they'd be over "later" and agreed to meet us there at 7:00 as we'd pulled strings with our friend Scott The Manager to get a table booked for 7 people at that hour on one of the busiest days of the year. Dinner was delicious and delightful, of course (and I got a free T-shirt marking the occasion, w00t).
The best bit is that I get to do all this again in a few weeks when Mark's mum is here! YAY!
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Mum & Pops are coming back for a visit! yay!
Girl, sorry we missed the birthday party, we weren't in control of our week.
Meanwhile, I have tagged you in a meme on the blog, so you are IT. All you are supposed to do is post six random things about yourself and tag some others.
Hope the birthday went well!
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