Happy Birthday, Mom!

My mother turned a BIG number on March 31st this year! So I tied in a trip to Atlanta on the way to my keynote in Athens, Georgia for the Conference on Children's Literature. My sister, Jennifer, cousin Jennifer, and I took her to lunch at Café Alsace in Decatur, Georgia, which was lovely of course. Afterwards, she and I went to The Carlos Museum at Emory University, where my friend Vicky Alvear Shecter is a docent. And where we saw these awesome Goddess and ancestor figurines. She and my father drove to Athens to enjoy my keynote, so I was able to get the audience to wish her a happy birthday (which she loved!) and we all went out to lunch before I drove back to Roanoke.
     Here I am with this dynamic woman who I can't even keep up with! I hope I have her energy at her age! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!