25 Steps To The Mom Of The Year Award

 

Ok, I just want the title for a minute, if that’s ok with the rest of you moms out there. I want to make sure I document and brag just a little bit about how AWESOME I made my oldest daughter’s 10th birthday. I’m not likely to repeat such success so I want to be sure to share it, if for nothing else but to have proof to show her when she hates my guts in about 5 years.

The planning for her 10th birthday started 10 months ago when I found out that her favourite-of-all-time-the-prettiest-singer-ever was going on tour which included a stop in Vancouver which is only a 60 minute flight from where we live.

Here are the 25 simple steps you too can take to get the Mom of the Year Award.

Step 1: Become a member of the Taylor Swift fan club online in order to get access to pre-sale codes. Endure the 20 emails a week before the sale starts.

Step 2: Invite a friend and her daughter to join us on the birthday extravaganza. This is as much for me as it is for her .

Step 3: Set no less than 3 alarms to remind yourself of the exact moment you must get online to purchase tickets to the concert.

Step 4: Take a sedative to stop the jittery nerves long enough to get online and put the secret pre-sale code in the right box at the EXACT moment the sale starts.

Step 5: Pray that the seats aren’t in the nosebleed section. Not that I would risk letting them go to attempt getting better seats anyway.

Step 6: Thank the baby hay-suess when that confirmation screen comes up saying I got tickets!

Step 7: Breathe again.

Step 8: Start stalking airlines for seat sales.

Step 9: Start stalking the mail delivery person until the tickets arrive and are safe in your possession.

Step 10: Hide said tickets in a safe place.

Step 11: Tell at least 1 person where you’ve hidden them so you don’t forget where they are.

Step 12: Book a hotel for the night of the concert.

Step 13: Talk to friend in Vancouver about crashing visiting at her apartment for the few days before the concert.

 

 

Step 14: Try your best to conceal your own excitement about the birthday extravaganza.

Step 15: Wait.

Step 16: Reveal that you are taking her to Vancouver for a “Mother-Daughter” trip for her birthday which will include her friend joining us.

Step 17: Fly to Vancouver.

Step 18: Go sight seeing. Get a pedicure. See the ocean. Play on the beach. Make memories.

Step 19: Reveal that you are taking her to a hotel downtown for her birthday night.

Step 20: Have the hotel deliver the concert tickets to the hotel room via room service with a slice of birthday cake!

Warning!! This will induce screaming and shrieking.

Step 21: Go to the concert!

Step 22: Instead of watching the concert watch the look on your daughters face as her idol sings her first song. That’s pure magic.

Step 23: Order room service breakfast the next morning before checking out and heading to the airport.

Step 24: Home safe and sound and happy.

Step 25: Try not to kill her when she says she’s bored!

 

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