70!

We spent the week actively lying to my mom:
-I pretended to be a bit sad she would have dinner with only her boyfriend on her 70th birthday.
-I then said: fine, we’ll have dinner Saturday.
-my sister-in-law and I pretended to prepare her a dinner for Saturday, and I even asked if I could borrow her car to grocery shop for it.

And then she was surprised by a dinner at her sister’s, where both my sister-in-law and myself greeted her!

It’s hard for me to realize that my mom is 70. To me, she’s still a young woman, mid fifty maybe. Ever since her knee surgery, she’s been full for energy’