We kind of played a mean trick on my Mom this past weekend. But let me back-up: on Thursday was my Mom’s birthday. It was a pretty big milestone birthday, so Derrick & I invited everyone over to our house for dinner & cake on Friday night. In total we had 15 people squished around out table plus...
[…] The absolute HIGHLIGHT of the past 2 weeks though was surprising my Mom for her birthday. I won’t go into detail about what we did or how we pulled it off, as I wrote all about it in a “weekend wrap-up” post, but just know: it was so good. Planning and setting into motion a surprise of such magnitude, with so many moving parts is challenging to say the least! At multiple moments in the week leading up to Saturday, we thought she had figured it out or was on to us. My Mom is really smart, and she definitely might have sensed that something was up, but she was sweet enough to be 100% surprised when we all walked in. Not sure what I’m talking about? You’ll want to go back & read the story, here! […]