{"id":11121,"date":"2014-05-13T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2014-05-13T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:41:54","slug":"happiness-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2014\/05\/13\/happiness-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"happiness (on Mother’s Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a huge fan of Mother’s Day (too much commercialism and shmaltz), but it was still a joy to spend a few minutes on Sunday looking through the photos taken at my mother’s surprise 70th birthday party last December.\u00a0 The uber-talented D’Arcy Benincosa<\/a> was out photographer, and she did such a great job of capturing the smiles of my siblings and Mom.\u00a0 Everytime I look at these pictures, I am so happy (note: click on the images to enlarge them).<\/p>\n

I also enjoyed a quiet moment considering what my Dad might think<\/a> of these if <\/a>he were still alive.\u00a0 Given that one of the last efforts before he became ill was to throw a secret 50th birthday surprise party for my Mom, I feel fairly confident that he, too, would be pleased by knowing that we traveled from the four corners of the US to do that same for her 20 years later:<\/p>\n\n\t\t