Thanks for all the birthday wishes for Mom! She may be older than dirt, but she's still our Mom, and we love her, no matter how ancient she is.
We're waiting for our cheeseburgers...Speaking of cheeseburgers, I have a slight bone to pick with Mom. Okay, so it was her birthday, right? And since she had to go to the store to get a couple of other things, she decided to buy her birthday cake. Okay. Fine. But on the way home from the store, Mom drove to this building we've driven past a million times before, rolled down her window (
okay, she pressed a button - who actually rolls down windows anymore?) and then drove to another window where some guy handed her a cheeseburger!
I want to know why was I not told about the cheeseburger dispensary before yesterday?!? WHY? We've driven past this place a zillion times, and Not Once has Mom stopped at the cheeseburger window. I mean, a window that hands out cheeseburgers, and we've NEVER stopped?!? Never. Ever.
The only upside to this whole thing is now I KNOW where this cheeseburger dispensary is, and lemme tell you, there is No Way I'm going to let Mom drive past this place again without stopping to be handed a cheeseburger. How cool is this world that you can drive to a window and be handed a cheeseburger? I think the humans may finally be on the right track....
Okay, so back to the cheeseburgers. Mom didn't get the greatest pictures in the world,
(something about how she couldn't take a good picture while trying to not have her fingers eaten; I have No Idea what she is talking about...) but we did get our cheeseburgers.
TaiChi said that she used to get cheeseburgers All The Time. And I don't think she was lying. I think Mom and Dad have been holding out on us. I should have believed TaiChi's stories of cheeseburger stores. At least now I know they are All True (and not just wild tales of The Old Days, or the wistful fantasies of an old poodle)!
Oh yeah. So for Mom's birthday, she got a cake, and Abby and I were quite helping in staging the photo....
Watch out, Mom.... You're gonna drop the cake...Mom decided that she couldn't get us to sit next to her while holding a burning cake.
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were wasted on her. So she shooed us away and took a picture where she wasn't required to actually HOLD anything.
Heehee.
To celebrate Mom's birthday, Mom and Dad went out to dinner. Without us. Really. You would think they would want to celebrate ALL their special occasions with us, but apparently not. However, they went to someplace where they came back smelling like raw fish, which was pretty cool because we got to give them lots of kisses and smell all that yummy fish! Maybe next time they'll take us... We could pretend to be service dogs. Really, we could. Maybe. Okay, maybe not. Nevermind. Maybe next time they'll get their sushi delivered to the house so we can, ah, help them eat it. You know, in case they order too much or something. Heehee.
Of course, to celebrate Mom's birthday, we also engaged in some bitey-face for her entertainment...
Heehee.
But seriously, the best part of the day was discovering that the tales of the cheeseburger stores are more than just myths! :-) Happy birthday, Mom!
*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus
