When trying to come up with something truly great that doesn’t cost a lot of money to give our mom for mother’s day, a conversation worth repeating to all of you ensued between myself and my two brothers, Nick and Zack. Z: You know what I think about all the time? S: Hahaha! Don’t even tell me. The water balloon incident! Z: Yeah, what a great mom moment. N: I can’t believe the water balloon made it that far without breaking! S: Why did we all think of that one random memory? The summer before my brothers and I moved out of the house after college, we sometimes got bored and reverted to childish games, like water balloon fights just between the three of us or assembling a dangerous slip-n-slide through the bumpy yard. During a particular water balloon fight, we had this great idea to try and hit our mom with a water balloon. Our mom was working in the garden, about 30 yards away from the tree. We had one last balloon. Nick carefully calculated the distance, and while our poor unsuspecting mother was bending over gardening, the balloon hit her square in the back. I can still …

Oct. 1, 2021, 12:03 p.m.

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