When I was in grade five, my mom was a key player on the PTA at school. (She had 4 kids enrolled in the school and one alumni, so how could she NOT be involved...?) Anyway, they decided that for a fundraiser they would have a "Fun fair" - and the date chosen was my birthday. Not so great when you're the birthday girl and your mom is super caught up in the logistics of all this. Little did I know that it was going to become a trend throughout the following 20 years...
About every three years, my mom has a giant yard sale/fundraiser on my birthday weekend. It's quite comical, yet, sometimes annoying, when I'm trying to pull together a fun family weekend plan and it ends up that we're just all enlisted as volunteers to help out...
So, this year, my mom, being the awesome and wonderful mom that she is, decided - not this year. This year, I'm going to make sure we're not having a big fundraiser at the church on my daughter's birthday weekend. I love it when my mom gets all determined. And, true to her word, she got the church to agree to have it the weekend before my birthday. My mom was very proud of herself and thought that it was going to work out perfectly.
And then I moved away.
I would just like to make it public how much I love my mom for this effort and thoughtfulness.
Hope your big yard sale is very successful and fun mom!!
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