birthday weekend

I love my family... their quirky sides and not so quirky sides. But was it most fun is planning to surprise or scare them. Which in some ways I did to my mother this weekend. Forgetting my mother has an instant panic button whenever it comes to my sister or I. I decided to call her as I walked into the rehab clinic where she is currently residing. She surprisingly answered the phone (it was after all 7:30 am) and immediately said it's 4:30 what's wrong. Which if I was home in Arizona it would have been but as I was currently walking into her room it was 7:30. So I conveniently kept my voice calm while trying to communicate with my sister which room I was to enter. Time perfectly to say it is not 4:30 but 6:30 (okay my timeline was off) and peeked around the corner of the curtain in my mother's room. Who immediately put down the phone, started yelling my name and hugging me. Not believing I was standing in the room.... So I would say my sister and I successfully surprised my mother this past weekend. Not to mention the party my sister pulled off in surprising my mother. Which could have been ruined by friends spilling the beans, shopping with the boss, all the cars outside the home or best friends entering as we were pulling up but for all the problems my ever successful and planning sister had an answer for everything that could go wrong and was ready to rationalize everything. But she did not have to and the surprises went off without a hitch. It was wonderful to see my mother with her friends and see how much people truly adore and love her. Who are willing to accept her issues and personality. Because in the end we are all just works in progress.