Before I forget - 45 minutes of fast walking and 25 minutes of free weights.
The party for mom was perfect!
We had a private room on the second floor of the restaurant overlooking the bay. With our very own waiter. It even had its own bar for water, soda and iced tea. Of course, the real drinks came from one of the downstairs bars. It was a beautiful set up.
She loved her presents. I'd swiped pictures from her photo album and had 6 of them them remade into 4x5s and framed. She loved'em. Her favorite was the one of her mother when she was about 9 years old. These pictures had been in really bad shape before. They were tiny - like 2x3 or something.
I had quesadillas and something similiar to a Long Island Iced Tea. Instead of coke its made with cranberry juice. When the waiter was taking the drink orders my brother's girlfriend pointed at me from across the table and said, "I'll take what she's having!" That cracked everyone up.
I was very happy with the arrangements by brother made. He did an excellent job. Since our waiter was "stuck" with our room and couldn't take any other tables, dh tipped 20% and then I added an extra $10. Dh about had a fit that I tipped extra but I appreciated the work the waiter had to do and wanted to be sure he knew it. I'm sure everyone else tipped about 20% but I felt the waiter deserved extra. My son agreed with me!
Everyone loved the cake I had done with a pic of Mom when she was about 17. It turned out well. My nephew was dishing out the cake and as he handed me my piece he said, "You have your mother's eyes!"
Yesterday was one food after another. Breakfast buffet at 9am with dh's family. (eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, potatoes - too much) We came home and at 1pm dh & I had champagne and fruit w/lowfat cheese. At 4pm we ate with my family. Everyone was ordering steak and prime rib - I had the red potato appetizer. Its like potato skins with red potatoes. I only had one glass of wine because my brother's girlfriend told me she brought 2 bottles of champagne for us to drink at my mom's. (I made mimosas out of mine.)
Then at 8pm my kids did my "mothers day". WE made tuna fish sandwiches, had rootbeer and i opened my presents from them. I made out like a bandit! Lots of candles and flowers. My older ds even jokingly got me a 60 hour candle in case we lose our electric. I also got a candle warmer - I'd never even seen one of those before. I just had one bit of tuna, no sandwich and no rootbeer.
This morning, I felt like crap from all of the salt and alcohol I'd consumed this weekend.
So far I've had one meal of one scrambed eggwhite w/1 veggie sausage and 1 lf LC cheese 145/3.5
I've also had lots of lemon water and a T of habanaro sauce.
Anna, the party was great. Unfortunately I can't do a 'do over' next week because I work next weekend. HOwever, this one went pretty well. I'm just a little worn out today.
Thanks, Kate, you too! It went so fast I couldn't believe it!
Amy, we had a great time. As you can see I did a weekend of mainly junk food. It was great - I'll take quesadillas and potatoes over a steak any day!
Our roof's on, the thermostat is set at 76 degrees and its 79 in here! Much better than the 81 from earlier this week.
to your mom! If you don't get a chance to relax on Sunday, I'd recommend a "do over" weekend for you next week! 
Thank God it went by quickly. Poor ds - I sent him into the dentist telling them he needed a filling - they did xrays and everything BUT fill his tooth - then we had to schedule another appt for his filling (and its a small one). I don't know how I could get a broken tooth fixed faster than a small filling...go figure!
