I like this very much. There is a definite feeling of mood. The partial desat works well here. There is no flamboyant flash of colour, just the gentle skin tones, which draw my eye to your subject without hitting me in it. One of my ribbon choices.
Great potential here. The image of a lonely mom who is by definition no alone is quite emotive.
It will likely get slapped down pretty well due to selective saturation (DPC no-no =) Keeping them as a colorless part of the landscape would have forced the eye to bounce around more appropriately without the intervention.