I have the best mom. If I can say that someone is my #1 supporter, it’s her. The kids and I are going to Independence, where she works, today for her second jewelry show in three months. (And by the way, she wasn’t a jewelry person until I became a jewelry lady….that’s when her addiction began. That’s right, I’m an enabler).

Henry is as comfortable stripping off his clothes the minute he walks into her house as he is at home. So even though she gave Ivy sips of beer on her second birthday, and let her walk around the Easter party mostly naked, and gave Essie tastes of whatever she was eating during our weekend in Arkansas, I still love her.

And because the kids can be whoever they want to be with grandma, here are a few pictures…