Mom's Birthday

Today was my Mom's birthday, I've been looking forward to it for a few weeks because for once I knew just what to get her.  The kids were so excited they wanted to call her first thing this morning to wish her a happy birthday.  I love my Mom, she is the best, and my kids love her so much too.  My parents are retired so they watch my kids while Jeremiah and I are working, and my Mom was so incredibly helpful during the school year with getting Abby to school or staying with the others so I could get her or run errands.  My parents kept Abby and Eli while I was staying in the hospital with Hannah for a month.  And my Mom still comes over sometimes to entertain the kids so I can get some of my "nutso-cleaning-and-purging" done.  And I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but she does about half of my laundry.  If she didn't my kids and I would all be wearing our underwear inside out half the time.

My parents came over today and brought pizza.  On the recommendation of my Uncle Joe we tried Papa Murphy's Thai Chicken pizza, it was delish!  It has a sweet kind of spicy sauce instead of marinara sauce, with chunks of chicken and some thinly sliced zucchini, yummy.

For dessert we made my Mom a "fruit cake."  I saw the idea on Pinterest, ah, sweet pinterest, where my time goes to die.  Anyway, I thought I would give this a try, it was super easy and fun.  The hardest part was trying to keep the kids from eating the fruit while I was decorating it.

The kiwi was really good.

We also gave her a flower.  But not just any old flower, it's a gift card hiding flower.  Abby and I made it, each petal is like a little envelope with a gift card tucked inside.  She also gets to keep the coffee mug!  I have to say I'm pretty sure I came up with the idea for the flower on my own.  I can't always trust my mom-of-three-kids-scatter-brain, like when Jeremiah asks me why the remote is in the fridge or I can't find my phone anywhere and the whole time I've been holding it in my hand.  Kids kill your brain cells people!  But I think I can take credit for this one.  

What the flower looked like when we first gave it to my mom.

But if you look closely you can pull a gift card out of each petal. Sneaky huh!

Hi Mom! Love you! Glad you liked the cake.

After dinner we finished off the night with a trip to Peachwave for some frozen yogurt.  My kids get a little yogurt and cover it with gummy worms and Mike & Ikes and those little popping bobba things.  My favorite at Peachwave is the pineapple, it reminds me a little of a Dole Whip.

What an awesome day!  Love you so, so much Mom!