Sunday, Sept 26, 2021

Today was Mom's 87th birthday!

Charlie & Evelyn had arranged for the family to gather at Antonio's Italian Cuisine in Sterling Heights for her birthday dinner.  They also got a big, beautiful (and delicious) cake for dessert!  It was a great time.

We picked Mom up at her place and arrived around 2:30.  Dinner was at 4:00, so we had plenty of time.  She was excited to go, and asked us for our opinion and help picking out jewelry to wear with her outfit.  (Jim's a big help in that dept.  Me? -not so much).

In the excitement of getting to the restaurant, we overlooked the marque on the sign out front.  Apparently, Evelyn & Charlie had arranged for a personalized birthday message for Mom.  How cool!  After we finished dinner, we grabbed a picture of it with Mom, Charlie, Penny & Jim in front.  (Unfortunately, Greg & Katie had just left, a few minutes earlier).   For more pictures of the event, see Penny's Facebook photos page.

Everyone seemed to have a good time.  Mom ordered a Long Island Iced Tea which she enjoyed.  Unfortunately, as we've found at our place when we have her over for holidays, she doesn't seem to be content with having only 1 drink.  Frankly, she doesn't seem to know when to stop.  Today, however, Charlie and Evelyn were buying for her, so she asked for another drink, but C&E appeared to not take notice of her request as they were sitting a little further down the table.  Thankfully, although her drink was strong, with having had only one, she was able to be escorted fairly easily by Jim and I out of the restaurant.  She did complain that her legs were stiff from having sat so long, but she managed it.