Anne and I went to Laumeier Sculpture Park on Sunday and attended the annual Mother’s Day art fair there. Laumeier is a county park and is normally free to enter, but this event is always ticketed. This year, we decided to join the Laumeier association that supports the art in the park, and I got a t-shirt. There was lots of beautiful art to see and even dream about buying, but all of our walls are already full of family generated artwork. We really cannot afford to support other artists, because there already so many who we are already related to. A new thing this year were stickers. Art stickers for decorating your water bottle, laptop or whatever. We looked at these too, but again no sales.

There were lots of moms and dads and their children at the fair. We held a steady texting dialog with our kids. First there were all of the Mother’s Day best wishes. First among moms was Maren, the newest of them all. The conversation then turned to the what’s happening news. On Saturday night, Dan and Britt had taken the redeye from New Mexico, back to NYC. Dave and Maren took Declan to Rockport to hang out with family at their summer cottage on the coast. In New England you do not have cabins, but instead you have cottages. We gave everyone regular reports from the art fair.

Yesterday, my blog got a thousand hits. This is now an annual Mother’s Day event. It all goes back to the first year that I began writing and posted the lyrics to the 1915 song MOTHER, “M Is for the Many things she gave me…” Anne and her sisters used to sing it to their mother, partly because it annoyed her, and I guess that I picked up on that. Anyway, if you google this lyric up comes this blog at number one and since a few years later I reposted it, it is now also number two. I know that it is not much of a claim to fame, but I’ll take it.