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• Oct. 21, 2007 - We had a birthday party for my 80yo mother-in-law yesterday
We surprised my MIL with a birthday party, yesterday. It was kind of spur-of-the-moment, since we didn't even think of it until last Friday, and her actual birthday was Monday. But being the big 80, we thought we should do something.
We knew she wouldn't like a big party, where she didn't get to talk to people, so we just mentioned it to several friends, whom we knew would know others...... I got a cake at Costco (huge, not too expensive, very pretty, and VERY yummy! :) ) , along with WAY more ice cream than we turned out to need. (Anybody want some good vanilla ice cream?)
We invited her over for lunch, then stalled around a bit about the cake. At 2pm, the doorbell rang, and it was a mutual friend. MIL was glad to see her, but didn't think much about it. Then at 2:10, the doorbell rang again--this was someone I used to know well, but haven't seen in years--but she's a good friend of MIL's. Then, MIL turned to me and said, "Oh, what HAVE you done?!?!?!"
It was great. There weren't a lot of people, but that gave MIL a good chance to talk to everyone.
My mom commented later that probably, in her adult life at least, nobody had ever given MIL a birthday party! MIL was smiling when she left, so we are all pretty happy with the outcome. (Also, the guys at hubby's work are happy, because they got left-over cake!) |
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