Mother's Day - 2013

Jim's folks came over for dinner last nite for mother's day.  We had a really nice time.

Dinner was amazing:

• Salmon with Dijon dill sauce
• Roasted broccoli and cauliflower with feta
• Cole slaw
• Quinoa with pine nuts
• Strawberry shortcake

Then we sat around and talked about when Grandma Anna was a little girl in Hawthorne Nevada and when she moved to Los Gatos while in High School.  Both Jim and I were surprised to learn that Anna's mother had owned 8 acres in Monte Sereno/Saratoga.  We looked up the house that Anna used to live in in Los Gatos on Google earth.  We were able to see a giant redwood tree in the front yard that her and her mother transplanted as a tiny sapling when she was in high school.

Anna's mother was a business woman who started selling fine women's clothing door to door in Nevada as a single mother to Anna.  She eventually opened a dress shop in Hawthorne and was very successful before moving to Los Gatos.

It was a really enjoyable evening.