What i am

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An artist
A mother
A wife
A best friend
Creative
Sweet
Big
Beautiful
Not-so-sweet
Caring
Awesome
Appathetic
Imaginative
Little-bit-ctazy
Obsessive
Bitchy
Meticulous
Proud
Spiritual
Kind

Modest.

Natural playtime

Have you ever watched a child play? I'm NOT talking about the kiddie corral-germ factory that you see at the mall.  I mean watch them PLAY. Leave them to their own divices and watch their imagination go nutso.  No? Not surprised. 

With the exception of my crunchy momma friends and a couple of blogs like I'm Not Hannah, pretty much all "play" that I see kids doing is the übber regulated 'play date' BS designed to keep kids safe and mommy's feel accomplished. Possibly with a láte. Or scones. Anywho.  That's not play. 

Do you remember real play? Stealing pillow cases and blankies from your moms linen closet to be morphed into super hero capes. Used paper towel tube were pirate spyglasses. Under every bed was a fort.  We were warriors. We were princesses. We were mad scientists.  We didnt have play dates, we PLAYED.

Where did that imagination go? Where is that sense of wonder? The exploration? Scheduling every activity and experience for a child isnlt preparing him for the future, its robbing him of his childhood. And I just can't do that to Bubby. I would rather him have an adventure in the world than a timetable.  Because for every adventure, there is a lesson to be learned. To be a pirate in the back yard is to find the rabbit dens and birds nests.  To be a growling lion teaches that the floor is hard and mommy kisses all boo boos.  And that's an important lesson.  Yes, my heart is in my throat all the damn time (especially now that were in the climbinb phase). But that's a good lesson for me, to let him explore, but always be there to kiss the boo boos.

But can you imagine what the world would be like if we raised an entire generation of adventurous thinkers? A world where imagunations were encouraged to run wild? A lot less regulation ans a lot more..... childishness?  Sounds like a pretty cool world to me. 

Circle of WTF

i've been watching my twitterverse/facebook-topia blow up all day because of the Circle Of Moms Blog Polls.  first it was that one of the entrants in the "faith" division was seriously bashing the pagans.  (and i read the blog in question.  she was harsh, very harsh). then a bit later same blogger exited the contest (to which she was getting pounded into the ground, BTW) as a personal decision because she couldn't in good consciousness be part of a contest that allowed pagans.  now it's the second spot of the political division calling all her followers to (as FeministBreeder put it " vote down the "feminazis" and other such slurs"  




OK.  WTF. 




it's a blog contest people!!!!!!!!!!!  and yes, i know that some people make money off their blog from advertisers and it's important for them to be seen by lots of people.  


but it's a frakking blog. 


i think some people have forgotten why most of us got started blogging to begin with.  we have something to say.  something that is important to us.  and i don't know about the rest of the blogging universe, but i for one don't give a rat's right butt cheek what other people think about what i'm saying.  (except for YOU, i love YOU).  chalk it up to the frustrated artist in me, but whilst i think it would be frakking awesome to be part of the 'top 25', i don't want it so much that i'm going to send my minions out to be evil.  admittedly i only have one minion, and he's 1 1/2, not very scary.  


so kudos to FeministBreeder, Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom, and PaganMomBlog.  you guys are awesome and haven't once yet belittled the competition.  i wish the rest of the 'verse was as cool as you.  


  

Wordless Wednsday - SMILEY BOY

I would like to breathe sometime before june

First it was the cold.  That morphed into strep. That was masking the sinus infection (that popped up after the shot in the butt cleared the strep).  That was the only thing keeping my alergys in check. 

I hate pollen.

A few new sketches

Here are a couple new sketches from the book.  Please let me know what you think.

PS, started a 365 days of blogs challenge, so be prepared to get really bored of hearing from me. :-)

A little give and take

Yove heard me gripe and groan in the past about 'real' food vs 'fake' food.  I've gone on at length about my desire to feed my family nothing but wholesome natural and unprocessed food.  Its better for me.  For my family.  For the environment.

And I can't afford it.

At least not to the extent that I want to take it.  My yard tested high for lead, so until its replaced, I don't get my monster garden. Or anything really that I can't grow in an container.  So... suck 1.  I won't have saturdays off for at least 2 months, so the multiple farmers markets in the area are all off.  Suck 2. As for non-grown, yet still wholesome food? The older won't eat anything but Mac n cheese, and the younger will only eat hot dogs and yogurt.  Suck 3.  Buying food that at LEAST is free of hfc's? Too danm expensive.  A little box of the 'natural' grahm bunnies is almost 4 bucks.  The monster 2lb package of animal crackers that proudly proclaims its hfcs? A dollar something.  Yeah, I bought monster bag. 

Eating healthy 100% of the time costs too much.  And even if i get the 'good stuff', there's no warranty stating that its really GOOD stuff. 

So in an effort to (not annoy my hubby and children) get a little more balance in out food, I'm not going to freak out if we don't always eat the best.  I'm going to try yes.  But I'm not going to best myself up if it doesn't happen.  Yes, Bubby is currently eating the animal-crackers-of-the-danmed.  But he also eats organic yogurt.  So, ya know, it balances out.