Happy birthday, Mom!
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matrixrefugeeA month of planning, plotting and scurrying around for my mom's Hello Kitty birthday party has paid off: this morning, I fibbed to my mom, saying there was a scheduled chat between some NaNoWriMo folks this evening, so I went to Mass this morning at St. Will's in town... And while my folks went to Mass at St. Michael's in Andover, I decorated the dining room with streamers and set the table.
I don't think I've seen my mom's face light up like that in a long time, the way it did when she came in after Mass. We had Hello Kitty cups and plates and napkins and hats; I'd ordered a Hello Kitty cake from the bakery department of the store where I work. She utterly loved the new dress I got from Build-a-Bear for her 18-inch Hello Kitty plushie, and she went gaa-gaa over the two bags of Hello Kitty goodies I gave her, particularly the bound notebook and notebook paper which I got at the Sanrio store in Salem, N.H. and the Goth Hello Kitty mini-plushie and the Hello Kitty angel Christmas tree ornament I found at Tokyo Kid in Harvard Square. All the running about and the whispered conversations and phone calls on the sly with my dad have paid off. Mom herself said she wishes they'd had Hello Kitty when she was a kid; today she got just that, and her smile was well worth everything my dad and I put into making it all possible.
I don't think I've seen my mom's face light up like that in a long time, the way it did when she came in after Mass. We had Hello Kitty cups and plates and napkins and hats; I'd ordered a Hello Kitty cake from the bakery department of the store where I work. She utterly loved the new dress I got from Build-a-Bear for her 18-inch Hello Kitty plushie, and she went gaa-gaa over the two bags of Hello Kitty goodies I gave her, particularly the bound notebook and notebook paper which I got at the Sanrio store in Salem, N.H. and the Goth Hello Kitty mini-plushie and the Hello Kitty angel Christmas tree ornament I found at Tokyo Kid in Harvard Square. All the running about and the whispered conversations and phone calls on the sly with my dad have paid off. Mom herself said she wishes they'd had Hello Kitty when she was a kid; today she got just that, and her smile was well worth everything my dad and I put into making it all possible.
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