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First of all, very best thoughts and wishes to UltraGirl, the new mom on the block. Hope you are healing and finding motherhood more rewarding than exhausting!

As we know, Mother’s Day is a commercial holiday designed to improve business for florists and jewelry store. A time for expectations and obligations. That said, I still appreciate the day for the reason of phone calls and well wishes from my kids.

It was, as I told Johnny, an uneventful day. UltraDad was home, and his feet are feeling better. He got the swamp cooler ready in the event that we actually do get summer, let alone spring, and did some week-whacking before heading back to Ruby Valley to prepare for another work week. I went to church, cut UltraDad’s hair and had a nice nap this afternoon. I went over to Sis-in-law Pat’s house and we played cribbage and ate steak.
Johnny called, was available for call back and had a online chat with me, all much appreciated. He even wrote me some verse: Roses are red, violets are gay, I wish you a Happy Mother’s Day.” And a song, sung, supposedly to the tune of La Cucaracha:
“Happy Mother’s Day
It’s like any other day,
‘Cept unlike any other day
This is Mother’s Day.

I told him he needed a few more words, and maybe a mariachi band to pull it off.

Had a very nice Phone chat with Heather, which I always enjoy.
Talked to Jim, and heard “You must not like your mother’s day present. You never put pictures of it on your website.” Of course I must prove him wrong on that score, so here is my beautiful, fantastical Mother’s Day Woodburning of antlered elk.

Signed by the artist!

UltraDad and I went to see Iron Man in the Movie Theater yesterday. We thoroughly enjoyed it and I came home inspired to make a few changes to my Mother’s Day woodburning.

Ironman saves the elk!

And so, commercial or not, the sentiment of honoring Moms, imperfect though we may be, is a good one. So Happy Mother’s Day to all, and to all a good night.

UltraMom