Mom has finally reached the big 6-0. My parents just don't seem that old to me but chronologically they are. It's weird how fast time goes by. One minute you are 13 and your parents are in their late 30's and then you're in your mid 30's and they are approaching or already 60. It is just amazing. I hate that time is just flying by. Covid has been making that seem faster. What I mean by that is, yeah Covid is keeping us from doing all the fun stuff we typically do every year so it seems like we're doing nothing and time is slow but we are hoping it goes by so we can get back to normal which eats up a lot of our time we could be living our life. It's so lame.
Anyway, I asked Mom what she wanted for food for her birthday party and she said chicken teriyaki. I'm sure most of us haven't had teriyaki in a while since ordering food and going out is rather annoying due to the Covid rules. I told everyone we were going to do it on Friday instead of the weekend so we didn't have to do anything this weekend and everyone can be free to do what they wanted.
I had been gathering presents over the past few months when I see them so I didn't have to get anything at the last minute which is what everyone is prone to doing. I found Mom a sloth door stop (basically a stuffed animal that was weighted down) at Fred Meyer over the summer and thought to myself, I will probably never see this again. Erika found a really cool sloth onesie from the Goodwill. You just never know what sort of treasures you'll find when you go to places like that. It's a never ending yard sale of awesome.
On Thursday I went to Hobby Lobby after work to get the sloth decorations I saw the last time I was with Mom at Hobby Lobby. I had no idea they had these kind of decorations especially sloths. I picked up a pack of sloth decorations and then headed over to the Dollar Store to see if they had anything else that I could use. I did find some sloth cut outs so I could decorate the table with.
As soon as I was done with work on that Friday I immediately cleaned up the house, set up the tables in the dining room, decorated and around 5, I called the teriyaki place and had Ben go pick it up. I then had him go over to Safeway to pick up those giant chocolate chunk cookies for dessert. I wanted to do something other than cake or cupcakes since we just had that at Dad's party about two weekends ago.
Everyone arrived just before 6. They commented on my decorations and Ben arrived with the food. I told everyone just to make sure we have enough food for everyone to spoon it out on a plate and eat it. Once everyone has food that you can go for seconds and thirds. I miscounted how many people were coming so we ended up with leftovers which was okay. We ate cookies and watched Mom open her presents.
We laughed at some phone apps and talked about funny things. Everyone went home around 7:30-8:00ish. I spent some of my night putting stuff away, washing dishes and cleaning up the dining room with Ben's help.
I spent the rest of the night watching the rest of a college football game, working on my blog a little bit and then got cleaned up and ready for bed. Today was busy.
Happy Birthday Momma!
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