Ok, so April was just crazy. seriously crazy. as in, crazy busiest month ever. Everything started off well enough, had the nice little Easter weekend, Murray's birthday with the family and so on.
Then Lovey was in a violin competition with extra rehearsals, lessons and performances. Where by the way, she shone!!! While that was going on, I was also preparing a huge event for the multiples club involving a ridiculous amount of prep and 427 emails a day from participants, vendors, committee members and random inquiries from the public! Then Murray went away for the weekend to his mom's retirement dinner with 2 of the girls (Lovey had a violin performance that day & couldn't make the trip). Then we had a small celebration for my mom's 60th birthday and then later that night it rained insanely and our basement flooded all while trying to figure out what went wrong at our multiples event as some of our numbers were off and required a week long hunt to figure out and reconcile.
Soooo needless to say, I'm glad to see May arrive!!! and there better be some awfully nice flowers to make up for the problems from those messy April showers!!!!!!!!
Mum's birthday was on a Monday. Anybody recall my insane Monday schedule around here??? Luckily, violin was cancelled that day! I picked up some flowers & cupcakes, grabbed the kids from school and hit the highway. Operation "surprise!" was underway! It was a total success if the look on her face as we stormed her workplace was any indication! It was the smallest and fastest birthday party ever though. We had no more than 15-20 minutes to get our birthday greetings done, eat a cupcake and get back on the road in time for dance class at 4pm. Luckily her bank is just off the highway so we were able to make class just in time!
We celebrated properly the following weekend with a real cake, candles and presents! Everyone came to our house Friday night for supper. As soon as the girls got off the bus, I put them to work, tidying and gathering up around the living room & kitchen. They take their parties very seriously and had everything looking pretty good before the guests showed up (early of all the nerve!!! LOL). Poor Dad had to finish the vacuuming so I could get the cake decorated! We had a special chair decorated in balloons and paper flowers for the birthday girl, signs were hung and more balloons put up. Murray barbecued in the rain and did a great job on some yummy chicken!
Although this is a little late in getting posted, Happy Birthday Mumma, you make 60 look good!!!
