Art, Movies, and Mom

Today was the last of our three full days vis­it­ing my mom.  We’ll leave here about noon tomor­row and drive back home to wind up the sum­mer and get ready for school to start.

I’ve done some pretty seri­ous shop­ping these past three days; I hope to give a full account­ing when I get home.  I always spend more money when I’m with my mom but I can’t yet fig­ure out if I spend more with her because I put off pur­chases until I have her advice or if her hor­ri­ble over-spending habits rub off on me when we’re together.  I think it’s prob­a­bly a bit of both.

Tonight I went to see Julie & Julia with my mom and The Son.  Laugh out loud funny.  If you haven’t seen it yet, go.  My mom had just seen it last Mon­day with my sis­ter and she said she loved it just as much this sec­ond time as she did the first time around.  I’ve never heard The Son laugh as loudly and as long in a movie the­ater as he did tonight.  The Daugh­ter chose to stay at home — one less ticket to buy but I’m sorry she missed it.  It made me think about blog­ging.…  I’ll never be a Julie Pow­ell but the movie did make me won­der if there’d been read­ers out there that I never knew about?  And does it really mat­ter?  After all, I came back because I really missed blog­ging not because I felt I had an audi­ence I needed to appease.  Still, some­times I do get a lit­tle freaked out that I’m just talk­ing to myself, elec­tron­i­cally and very pub­licly — well, pub­licly if there were a pub­lic pay­ing attention.

Okay, enough of this.  Tomor­row we’ll spend the morn­ing with my mom.  Then the kids and I will make the 550-mile drive back home where The Husband’s been duti­fully keep­ing the home fires burn­ing (though only fig­u­ra­tively, I hope).

I’ll leave you with a bit of a teaser — today I fell in love with the work of an artist who does the most amaz­ing water­col­ors.  Just beau­ti­ful.  They really spoke to me.  She had two pieces I par­tic­u­larly loved — both flow­ers — but I couldn’t decide which one I loved more.  I’m going to sleep on it tonight and will go back tomor­row with the inten­tion of buy­ing one or the other.  Which one will it be — the pop­pies or the lillies?

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