life has been tricky lately... actually tricky isnt the kind of word i'd like to use. life has been more like an uphill climb, with the wind blowing snow in my face, and for some reason i've forgotten my shoes and the grass is thorny... get me?
but i find solace in my niece Chloe. she's amazing.
she's smart. and i mean SMART. i watch her grow and learn so much.
she's beautiful. the prettiest girl i know. sometimes i look at her and wonder how my goofball brother made some a perfect baby!
she's the little bit of glue that seems to hold the rest of us idiots together in our family.
and the best part: she's always able to make me HAPPY.
she makes me wish that when i'm a mom i'm blessed with a baby half as wonderful as she is.
so saturday, in the midst of more-to-do-than-time-to-do-it and the usual weekly angst, i took a few blank canvases to my brother and sister in laws and we painted. it made my world.
painting usually does this to me anyway... it makes everything all better. my old room used to smell like bad incense and oil paints. and i LOVED it. sometimes everything goes away when you feel the give of stretched canvas under a loaded brush. i knew majoring in painting in college would get me nowhere financially.. .but i also knew it was what my heart was meant to do.
watching her feel the paint and look at the colors. seeing the teeny prints and scribbles she left behind... even when she ate a mouthful of blue! it was all pretty magical. (and thank goodness for non toxic paint!)
