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Louisiana Road Trip

We took a roadtrip to Shreveport this past weekend.

I couldn't find Fangtasia.  Bummer.Adam racked up more trophies at an arm wrestling tournament in Shreveport.  Three were first place-yay, honey!  He even gave one of them away since it was a team trophy. Hey, My Little Pony fans-it's Pinkie Pie's Boutique.  Look familiar?

And how do we know when we're back in Texas?  (Other than the obvious?)We know we're back home when the gas stations have dead animals in glass boxes.  That's how we know.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy day to all you moms out there.  It's a rewarding, exhausting, heart-wrenching job like no other.

 

Violet made me a card at school, with the help of her preschool teachers, Ms. Lori and Ms. Megan.  Hey, teachers-can you PLEASE not believe everything my child says?

(Note:  Family Guy is not my favorite show.  Nor do I like going to Walmart.  And I can think of better things to eat than cereal.  But I'll take the 100 pounds comment.)

Here are some drawings Violet made me for Mother's Day.

Poor Daisy.

That should say 'has', but it's my holiday so I'm not going back to fix it.  Princess Cat gets time out a lot in her drawings lately.

My personal favorite...Violet and Piper, with big bows.

She also drew a picture of me, but I can't FIND it!  Dang it, she draws twenty things a day.  I'm a horse, but with my head.  I have six legs and a rainbow hide.

I love being a mother.

Fairy God Sally compared to Stockard Channing!

My friend Sally Eames (one of Violet's Fairy Godmothers) received a glowing review in the Wall Street Journal.  She's starring in "Woman in Mind" at Chicago's Eclipse Theater Company through May 19th. 

 

(There she is with the flowers!  photos by Scott Cooper)

Wall Street Journal reviewer Terry Teachout said:

"It is also extraordinarily well performed, especially by Ms. Eames, who plays her part not as a tour de force of comic ingenuity but as a stingingly true-to-life study of a woman who can no longer bear the pain of her disappointments. Stockard Channing played Susan when "Woman in Mind" was first produced in America by the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1987, and I can pay Ms. Eames no higher compliment than to say that you won't wish you were seeing Ms. Channing instead."

 

Holy moly, Sally-congratulations!  People live a lifetime for a review that awesome.