Birthdays aren't just the same without Christmas... and discount cards

Spent this past Saturday celebrating my Mom's 60+ (she prefers if you didn't know what the + stands for) birthday back in the "home town."

As always it's great to see her. She looks FANTASTIC for 60+. Hopefully I turn out the same way. Ahhhh... but as I'm always telling my team "Hope is not a strategy."

After a nice dinner out on the town (Hungarian food if you must know) we went back to the house and climbed into our pj's before opening her birthday cards sent from family afar.

Except, they weren't birthday cards.

The first two cards Mom opened were misplaced, unopened Christmas cards! The giggles that ensued.

And then the kicker. My mom's sister (a.k.a. My "Aunt S") had sent a package. Mom had a bit of difficulty opening it because Aunt S is a really, really, really good package wrapper. It's like she has some sort of brown package vacuum sealer contraption that she uses.

So Mom gets out the paring knife, the scissors and Voila! The package is open. It's not until a little later on that she notices the card. She opens it and says, "Oh, I guess Aunt S got this card at a discount store." I nod like I know this is something Aunt S would do for sure. (She's an excellent bargain hunter.)

And then it hits me.

The card has been perfectly cropped in the corner. But I don't think it's a discount card. Heck, they don't do that to greeting cards. Only overruns on books.

And then I start to laugh. Hard.

Not only has Mom managed to open some forgotten, misplaced Christmas cards, she's also managed to cut off the corner of the real birthday card - in her zeal to open the brown paper vacuum package - Aunt S sent to her.

God, I LOVE my mom. Happy birthday!!!