October 3rd

This blog is dedicated to it's most constant reader and my biggest supporter on her 85th birthday: my mom. Barbara Ann Roush. It's thanks to her that I get a gentle nudge on the days I forget to hit 'post' and you finally get a blog. It's thanks to her that the most egregious errors are fixed. She follows the antics of the kids, and delights in their triumphs from her cozy little apartment in Paris. And to all of us mothers who do all the mother things we do (the list could be very very long!), we appreciate you so very very much.

"You are your mother's looking-glass, and she in you, calls back the lovely April of her prime; so through the windows of your age you shall see, despite of wrinkles, this your golden time". Shakespeare.

We had an excellent Friday.