Mom's 70th

Well my big bro and I pulled it off. We finally did something for our mother, just us for her. Usually, because her birtday falls in a month with other (step-) family birthdays, they all get celebrated together. But his was her 70th and my brother and I thought something extra was needed. I came up with the idea and BigBro did the initial leg work. I have an old picture of the three of us from when I was about 1-1/2 and brother was about five. I proposed we copy and crop out our face pix from that and put them in a locket. Bro checked out the jewelry and picked one out. I checked it out the next day and okay'ed the order. Two days later I picked it up and had it engraved.
Unfortunately, the photo work didn't go as planned. I got the pix copied okay and editted/sized them just so on my home 'puter using PhotoShop Elements. But when I went back to Kinko's (with only 15 minutes before I had to leave for the restaurant we were meeting my mom at) their Sony photo machine was not working. At the last minute, actually about ten minutes after the last minute, I just printed up a couple of bad, inkjet versions of the pix to use a placeholders in the locket.

Word came via my brother earlier that day that mom said that since we were taking her out to dinner we were not to get her anything else. Like we ever listened to her before. The dinner went well; the gift was very appreciated. I think we did okay. Granted, we really didn't have that high of standards to meet. Still, I glad we were finally able to do something nice for her, just her, on her birthday.