This year I planned a surprise bday party for my mom at Painting with a Twist for her 53rd bday. I paid for our seats, and the decorations. I invited family friends for an intimate private paint party, coordinated the food, bday cake, and guest list. My mom doesn't go out to do fun things, and she liked when I came home with paintings whike I was living with her so I wanted to do something out of the box and something she'll never guess or expect. She loved every bit of it, her friends and family being there, the food and wine, her painting that she worked hard on, and all of her gifts except my last one....

For my mom surprise bday party that I planned and prepared for. I decided this may be the prefect time to tell her I was pregnant. On her bday morning, I was scheduled for a follow-up ultrasound because I was told my baby may have had a birth defect (Anecephaly) that was fatal. So my boyfriend been pushing me to tell my parents for the longest but my family is not all that supportive or shows much excitement when we accomplish something, so I told him that I'll just wait to see if I'm clear of the birth defect. So that morning, it turned out my baby was clear of it, and as of now we don't have any worries 🎆🎆❤😍 so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share the good news with my parents and it'll be the perfect gift while I'm in good spirits. For his mom, he put our ultrasound in a card for his mom 2 weeks ago and she loved it. So he planned to do the same for his grandparents too, so I said let me do the same to make it a nice and surprising presentation instead of just telling them so I did.

After the surprise party that I organized and prepared for completely before, during and after the party. I decided to give her 2 cards as everyone was leaving, one was a bday card and the other was a holiday card saying, "adding a new blessing to your holidays this year." I told her to open the second card up with my dad too because it's for both of them. So when she finally did, she didn't seem excited at all and her congratulations didn't seem genuine neither. However, even though I told her to open it and it's just for them, that didn't stop her from telling my sisters (3) and her gf's who were invited as well (4), which I didn't ask for. Everyone was ecstatic for about 5 minutes and then we all proceeded to leave. She called the next day to say thank you and then she also said, "and your baby stole my shine at my party too." I was furious and just said, you're welcome and hung up. I regret telling her, I should've stuck with my initial feelings and just let her find out however, but I didn't want her to feel some type of way. But, I thought she would've loved my announcement to her, I guess not.