Thread:Llyssa1020/@comment-35594152-20190806022047/@comment-38558458-20190809080831

Hello Sue! ~  I'm sorry if I got those future events mis-ordered. The Birthday Celebration doesn't occur until next Thursday on the 15th.. My Mom will be 79 and my niece, will be 21. She is our only one (niece, granddaughter, daughter) and was born on my Mom's birthday. I can't believe it's already been 21 years. I have a special cake I'm picking up next week that will say:

Happy "8-15 Girls" B-Day  (Inside the top circle and rounded to fit)

Memaw  Josie

HEART or ROSE Applique in middle

79        21

"100" Looks Beautiful! (Inside the bottom circle and rounded to fit)  There might not be as many fancy flowers, etc because the inscription is a lot and large, but that will be fine.

It is to be decorated in white and pink with swags and lots of glitter/bling. Here is a cake I had made for my Mom's 75th Birthday. That was a very fun birthday celebration. Mom had to go all over town in search for her next clue. The clue would tell her a little bit about something and then point her in the next direction to her next clue/gift. It was a lot of fun. I went around to all of these locations earlier in the morning dropping off the clues and baloons so they would be waiting there when we arrived. I had balloons set on the counter so she would know where to go. It was sort of like the amazing race. One of her first clues told her she needed to go to the store where her and I go to on most Tuesday afternoons. Well that was Baskin N Robbins. The balloons were waiting there with an envelope addressed to her and inside there were gift certificates for BNR and a message on where she needed to go to find her next clue. That took her down to the Farmer's Market (lucky for us her birthday was on a Saturday). I had a fresh bouquet of country flowers waiting for her there. Then her next clue was to head over to the ballpark next to the Farmer's Market. She had to follow around quite aways to the next set of blooms and her clue had four tickets for her, my niece and my sister and I to ride the Gondola Ferris Wheel. The next clue told her to go to one of her favorite Cholcolate stores in the Village. We picked up that gift and read the next clue which pointed her to her favorite Salon. The girls that worked there had something special as well and we had a pedicure certificate in that envelope. Next clue pointed her to Red Lobster where she would find the rest of the family waiting. One final clue on the table told her to go home for her last present and that was the birthday cake. My Mom was so tickled by everything and she really enjoyed what we did to make it special for her.

I did something for my Father when he turned 75, but it wasn't that elaborate. His birthday is on the 12th of December so I did the 12 Days of December theme and he would get a note telling him to go check the front tree - that we saw a roaming Christmas gnome sitting out in the front. There was a message and a single food type item. Then every morning he would see another note at the top of the stairs. Second day, he found another letter, which pointed him to another gift found somewhere in the house that had two items. Eventually he ended up with 3-12 items ranging from bags of Tootsie Rolls, Car Wash Certificates, etc. and he really liked that. I had to think of something for Mom 2 years later that she would enjoy. Since I knew she liked the Amazing Race, we kind of based it off of that theme, except she didn't have to perfom anything successfully before moving on - just pick up her gift and figure out where to go next. I told them both that their 75th birthday bash would be as big and as eleaborate as it was going to get. Dad's 75th fell on 12-12-12, so he was making a big deal about it all year long, so I tried to make it special. When it was Mom's 75th, we told Josie that the birthday for that year is going to be all about Grandma - all of Josie's other shared birthday's were really all centered on Josie - she was 17 then and was very understanding about it.

Now we have just our normal day, dinner somewhere nice and cake back at the house.

Here is another cake that was made for my birthday.

I'm pretty certain I will not be loosing weight next week, but that's okay.

We are going to eat at Red Lobster early on Thursday. It's harder for Mom to digest her food too late in the day. And since my sister is taking off work, we thought that would work out well. I'm also thinking my niece might have plans with friends Thursday night, which is also okay and works out all around,

It sounds like you have a very special relationship with your daughter like we do with our Josie.

I told Mom about Veronica Mars, but it looks like that's on HBO and I don't have that any longer right now. I might go back and pick up it up for a month to see Big Little Lies and will let her check that out then. I remember Ally McBeal and was a fan back in the 90's - I remember the Al Green music they played - I thought it was a great show. I'm not sure if you watch This is Us or not. It's going into it's 4th season and has been a really great show that my Mom and I have really enjoyed. If you haven't watched it, I would definitely recommend it.

Well I'm calling it a night. Should have the book finished by next Monday and then will review in between celebrations and take practice tests. I've slated the test for a week from Saturday, then we will mail it from my neighbors and wait to see what happens. I should be able to jump right back into the next MyTona event that weekend. Take care friend! ~  Llyssa

Oh, almost forgot...I posted a very recent picture of Bella on my profile page. She is sitting inside her little condo house and has her front paws out looking absolutely adorable - I told her to hold that pose, while I took a picture - she did for about 10 seconds and then moved - lol.