Weekend Warrior!

This weekend we celebrated my mother 37th birthday, old I know, just kidding. But even though I had baseball practice and work, I had to play with my schedule so I can dedicate some time to her. Her Birthday was until Sunday but who honestly parties on a Sunday? So we threw her a nice little family only get together Saturday night. Chef Jose a friend of the family and I got kitchen duty of course. My grandma took my mother to the mall as we slaved away. Before actually cooking we sat together and planned what to make using her favorite meals. My mother enjoys anything shrimp. So to start off the meal we decided to make fried jumbo shrimp with dijon mustard dip. As the main course we went with something real close to home, a childhood meal that is made in most carribean homes, "Paella." Paella is a seafood rice dish that may contains shrimp, crab meat, lobster, clams, pieces of salmon, and basically any type of seafood you want. To top of the night we got another friend of family to make a traditional puerto rican style cake. You should of seen her face my mother almost cried. Sunday morning her official birthday, my siblings and I made her a nice breakfast to start her big day off. Unfortunately I had work at noon so I didn't spend the whole day with her, but so I've heard my dad took her to eat at a restaurant and stuff.