Mission: Birthday Status: Accomplished

BIRTHDAY!
Originally uploaded by tawnillia.

So, Phil and I thought we could throw my mum (turning 50 and recently abandoned by her good-for-nothing-asshole of a husband) a party. We got up early on Sunday and as the rest of my family got down with their righteous selves at the Jesus Party (aka church) Phil and I went shopping for crepe paper, cheese fondue, electronic Catchphrase, and flowers. Everything was going smoothly in that Tawny-is-stressed-but-thriving-on-the-stress kind of way until I had the brightest of all bright ideas. I called my younger siblings and asked them to run over to my grandma's house (where the party was being held) in order to add a little "kick" to the tone of our "SURPRISE!" as she walked through the door. They diligently obeyed their older sister and hid in various parts of the house with baited breath. My mother, thinking ahead as I do not, went to her own home first, instead of my grandma's house, to pick up her kids and drop some things off. BIG MISTAKE. We envisioned her coming to my G-ma's place first and it was only when she called my grandma in a panic and asked her through tears if her children were there that we realized the stupidity of my request. "Come to the party before mom gets here so she can imagine that her soon-to-be-ex-husband has come and kidnapped all her kids. Yeah, that sounds good." Obviously, as the picture depicts, my mum recovered, that was until she burned her hand on a fire begun my tea lights on the table which were, that's right, MY IDEA.