So how did the Lowders celebrate Hallmark Mother's Day?  Well the kids were at a church youth retreat all weekend and didn't return until 2:00 on Sunday and Mom Lowder was at a weekend getaway at High Rock Lake with a couple of other moms and didn't return until 2:30 Sunday.  That gave Dad Lowder a whole two hours to buy a few books at Border's and some flowers at Costco to add to the snow crab legs that had been requested by Mom Lowder for her Mother's Day dinner and had been purchased by Dad Lowder on a separate Costco trip on Friday.  Of course Mom Lowder ended up doing most of the meal prep herself, but who's quibbling?  Finally Dad Lowder had the genius idea to go see the new Star Trek movie as a family and packed everyone in the car and took off for the 5:20 show at the Grand.  Mom was oh so excited!  Thankfully she was pleasantly surprised and the movie worked out okay.  BTW, it's one of the best popcorn flicks I've seen in a while.

Amidst all this Dad Lowder forgot to call his own Mom, who's the one who originally convinced him that Hallmark created Mother's Day but Dad Lowder believes that was to make him feel better on another occassion that he forgot to call.  Yes, yes, he's a schmuck.  Dialing now…