A Mindful Life

It’s been a long time since I shared a video of Claire. For half a year I’d had trouble uploading them to Flickr, and just as suddenly it seems to work again. So here’s a video from the other morning (if the embedded video doesn’t work, try this link): She played the “drums” and “cymbals,” [...]

Life continues as normal. We create, learn, play, grow. Things change quickly! Until a couple weeks ago, Claire just couldn’t handle scissors, although she wanted to. Her hands are very petite. Then we went to a library event that involved a craft; she picked up scissors and began snipping. She’s been at it since. It [...]

Claire and I made this together. I set it up, she sprinkled stuff on it (confetti, sequins, jewels, feathers), squirted glitter glue, and I finished it off. Contact paper is wonderful stuff! A few days later I made a quick collage in a few spare moments in my art journal. I call it “Store Up [...]

We continue to create our way through the alphabet!

Piano and pennies…

Feeling quiet on the blog these days. Did a painting on a 24×36″ canvas — my first one. All that blank white canvas felt a bit daunting, but I did enjoy mooshing paint around. I also used oil pastel on details. Claire and I are getting into the spirit of the next holiday: And we [...]

I forgot to post last week’s alphabet craft. So here are the letters M and N. M is for mountains and marshmallows

Outside my window… The sky is clear and stellar. I am thinking… that I need to stop procrastinating and clean the kitchen. I am thankful for… my daughter, who asked to sing along with a folk song CD and book collection today. From the kitchen… I made white bean chili today. I am wearing… goosebumps. [...]

A serendipitous moment last Saturday resulted in this photo of a kiss: Our Christmas preparations are carried out with great enthusiasm and anticipation. Age three is a wonderful time for the magic of the season.