Mother's Day 2022. We started out by attending church. It was a glorious morning. Before we took off our "church clothes," I had the boys (Benjamin on left, Russ on right) sit with their momma and take a photo to commemorate the big day. We ate a light lunch since we were planning on having a crawfish boil in the late afternoon. Along with Tricia, Russ, Benjamin and me, Mom & Dad were coming and my sister Jenny, her husband, Brett and her six boys and a girlfriend of the oldest.
Monsters! We had three sacks of roughly 28 pounds per sack to boil. Time to get the show on the road.
We added the crawfish boil seasoning to the water, along with corn, potatoes, onion and garlic and then dumped the first sack into the water.
In about 5 minutes, the first batch was done! We got these ready to pour on the table and then readied the next batch to boil while we ate.
And here are the lovely honorees of the day. My mom on the left, my sister, Jenny, in the middle, and my bride, Tricia on the right.
We poured them out along the long tables and the crawfish quickly started to disappear. It was like magic.
Mom sat down and peeled crawfish after crawfish. They were seasoned good and we visited while we ate. It was a hot afternoon, but we were in the shade and a cool breeze would blow from time to time.
There's my sister getting into a crawfish pincher.
And my wife on the left eating some as well.
We thought we would have some left over to peel and freeze for etouffee, but we did not! We ate every last one of them. Once finished, we had room for ice cream and a lemon dessert. We pulled our chairs around in a circle in the shade and talked and laughed and remembered funny things. It was a very pleasant time. We made some memories. Before we knew it, the sun was sinking below the horizon. What a great day we had celebrating some very special mothers!
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