We spent a lovely Mother's Day picnicking by the family tree at Lakeview Cemetery followed by a visit to the Garfield Monument.  Mom/Kathy wasn’t up for the long trek to the top, so she relaxed with dad/Jack while the rest of us explored.

Dad/Jack & Karla enjoyed and “Evening in Ohio City”, touring beautiful Ohio City homes while enjoying local cuisine and delicious wine.  Mom/Kathy was worried it would be too tiring a night for her, so she had dinner with her baby brother and sis-in-law (Mark & Cora), but managed to wait up for us so she could hear all about the evening.  She ended the evening comparing her beautiful bald head with another fantastic bald head, that of Karla’s old friend, Christopher.

The family dogs found a little joy in snuggling.

One final picture for mom/Kathy’s Beaumont friends…  During mom/Kathy’s Beaumont years, she had a friend named Anne.  Several decades later, Karla (me:) worked with an amazing social worker named Anne who turned out to be the same Anne from Beaumont.  Anne has a daughter, Molly, who has a restaurant in Ohio City called SOHO (www.sohocleveland.com).  SOHO was one of the only restaurants on the Ohio City Home Tour that considered there might be vegetarians on the tour, making Karla (me:) VERY HAPPY and filled with gratitude (and mac-n-chesee!)!!!  SO, I leave you with a picture of the daughters of the Beaumont girls :-)