Yoke's on you

Mom's birthday was Saturday.  We had a three-part celebration that day.  Holly's birthday was at the end of December and Kris has one coming at the end of this month.  To simplify life for Holly, we did all three in the same day.  Cas and I bought presents for everyone, and specifically for Mom, we went in with Danny and Laurie on a very nice set of Calphalon pots and pans.  Cas also decided to have a little fun with the occasion.

Back on Cas' birthday, Mom orchestrated the great Green Polo event.  In a mocking tribute to Cas, Mom got green polo shirts for herself, Dad, Danny, Laurie and me.  Cas wears a lot of green polo shirts.  Good one, Mom.

Anyhow, a while back- maybe a Christmas or two ago, Kitty sent Mom a wine yoke.  It's essentially a lanyard meant to hold a wine glass.  Mom wanted to hand the thing off to someone else, so she decided that it would be funny to re-gift every time there was a family birthday.  Each wine yoke recipient was assigned to determine a new use for the item.  Somehow, the wine yoke was lost along the way.  I suppose that was her intention.  Nobody was too sad to see the wine yoke disappear.

But Cas had to take the green polo tribute and pay it forward.  Apparently, if you purchase a four-pack of wine yokes on Amazon.com, it's cheaper than buying just one.  So, Cas bought eight.  Before Mom opened the box with her very own wine yoke, most of the others were distributed.  When she pulled hers out of the box, everyone else put theirs on.  Awesomesauce.

I may need to pour a glass and strap on the yoke this evening, though.  It was parent teacher night.  Not exactly the worst thing in the world but it's a twelve hour day.  It was pretty good, though.  I had exactly seven parents or sets of parents come in this evening.  They were nice.  Some of them were good kids, but a few of them were kids whose parents I actually wanted at some point to meet.  

I met the parents of an autistic kid and the kid who I managed to bust for weed last month.  Interesting day, to say the least.  I have four days left in the week before the three day weekend and my road trip with Cas to the Clinton library in Little Rock.  It was a good idea for a gift, and I am pretty pumped about going.  No yoke.