Small Words Blog

It is official – Hudson has pink eye! Only 1 more to go {Emme} and they will all have had it in the past week+. It is weird that Em hasn’t gotten it yet because she is a thumb sucker! You would think if her hand is in her mouth, she would be carrying all the cooties. So weird!

Yet again, I’m stuck here at the house! Fortunately, it is with Hudson. He is fabulous to let me do some stuff around here without entertaining him. He gets so wrapped up in his own stuff {reading or a tv show} that he can do without me. The boy can even get his own snacks and drink! We went to the grocery store to pick up the last of the Thanksgiving groceries today after dropping off everyone else at school and he said, “We need to hurry and get home! You only have 2 hours to paint before Lawson gets off the bus!!” haha!! I never even mentioned painting or working for that matter. He just read my mind, I guess. Love that kid!

On to the next painting . . . .

I have to admit that during these next few paintings, I had to slow it down! I had several with the same name. Or they had similar fabrics. Or the exact bedding! I was fa-Reakin’ out I was going to ship the wrong painting to the wrong person!!! OR slip the wrong ‘thank-you’ in the wrong box – which I guess wouldn’t have been so bad, but incredibly embarrassing. I’m fairly confident that I didn’t make any of those mistakes or I would have heard by now. Unless, they are too weirded out to let me know! ha!

I know this is going to sound bad, but I love how this one has the “dirty” look to it! hah! I love that type of vintage-look! And I actually continued it throughout the entire painting!

I’m off to paint – even if it is for just a few minutes!

So, I’m back! I had to take some time away. I’ve been blogging for a few years and I’ve never took that much time off – ever – from the computer. And I refuse to look at the last post to see when I really did blog last! I know I stopped in once, but that is it. Serious cray-cray! But I needed it.

I think I told you guys last time that blogging was interfering with time that I felt should be used for painting. Unfortunately, I had atleast 1, if not 2, sick kids at home with me every day this week. From the pukies to pink eye, this week was a total bust when it came to painting. I literally did NOT pick up a paint brush. Okay, except when I moved a handful of brushes from the bathroom sink back to my studio. But that is it! I didn’t dip one in any paint. Sad! Depressing! Just down right wrong! But my babies come first and I can’t stand seeing any of those crazies sick.

It is funny how I can’t paint, but I can clean the house when I have some cootie carriers. ??? But then again, I’m trying to get rid of all those nasty cooties! I’m not bragging, but you could eat off my floors right now – not that I would. But you could. I’m pretty sure the five second rule was just pushed up to about 13 seconds. Not bad when you have four kids ages 6 and under! I’m hoping the kids will at least keep all their toys picked up from downstairs and keep each of their bedrooms clean. That way, I shouldn’t have a whole lot to do for Thanksgiving. Except cook. Which I guess I should probably work on that menu.

But before I do that , I’m going to finish up this post so that you guys know that I’ve not stopped painting or succumbed to my crazies or died.

Okay, I know this one is number “47″ and I’m not really that far down the line. There was a little scare with Addison and I just wanted to make sure her nursery was complete for some personal reasons. The good news is that after a long stay in the NICU, Addison is at home and doing fabulous!