the big 5-0

I wanted to pause in the course of my daily posts to do a little dance of celebration -- there are now 50 official followers of this blog, which is a kind of a wonderful-kooky-baffling-phenomenal thing. To people with wildly popular blogs, this might not seem like such a big milestone. But to me it's pretty darn cool. So -- many thanks to all of you who follow me each day. Give yourselves a round of applause, a pat on the back, a kiss on the cheek, and a great big hug. I try to follow each of your blogs, too, and comment when I can.

For those of you who follow unofficially, or who haven't left a comment before, I'd love to hear from you -- leave a comment below with your thoughts, or a link to your blog or website or flickr photostream. I really love to hear what you're doing, see the amazing photos that you're taking, or read the inspiring words you've written.

Happy Mother's Day, everyone. Hannah's gift to me is pictured in the post below -- and the flowers in the photo above were given to me by my son Nick. Thanks so much to my great kids for making me feel special. You can read a post I wrote about them last week (on my other blog) here.