I think this is when it's ok to lie to your mom:

check out the video(s) at Angela's blog:
THIS is my mom's reaction to watching THIS video.

It wasn't too hard to keep the fact that Angela & Jackson were coming today instead of Monday, a secret, but my mom sure made it hard today - calling each of us at least once & asking us questions that required little white lies, or partial truths. I may have had it the hardest - she kept calling me while I was at the airport picking up Ang & Jack. I wasn't answering, so she called about 3 times & then I finally answered, but had to walk far away from them so she couldn't hear Jack in the background.

Sadly, the reason my mom was calling me was to tell me some *insert extremely bad adjective here* broke into Aaron & Tasha's shed & stole their summer tires (they have snow tires on now), their air conditioner, and their 72 hour kits. SERIOUSLY!?!?!?!?! They've been burglarized 2x since they've been married (9 months). CRAZY! SCARY! SO UNCOOL! They were very lucky the person didn't break into their house, or they could have stolen my christmas present would have stolen their brand new TV & stereo system .

Quite the bitter sweet day.

ps We miss you Tommy - see you Christmas Eve!