mistyeyedart

All that remains...

2006-11-01T19:24:00.000-08:00

is a shy, solitary leaf,

lamenting

in the stillness of the day.

longing for the wind,

with it comes encouragement to fall.

where it lands it will not mind,

and when it does,

bliss.

myself

2006-10-29T12:59:00.000-08:00

the rain falls and the sky shudders...

IF ~ wind ~

2006-10-28T14:21:00.000-07:00

What a little artwork can do...

2006-10-25T13:42:00.000-07:00

Thank you all for your birthday wishes for my mom and my little gorilla. ;-)

What a time of celebration.

Celebration of life, celebration of a new season, celebration...just because!

Here are a few of my latest pieces of art...I shall be listing them on etsy soon."There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

~ 3 ~

2006-10-24T13:49:00.000-07:00

Today is my little gorilla's birthday

(yes, I guess that makes me a mama gorilla...)

He is this many ~ insert three tiny little fingers here. This afternoon I got a call from my daughter's teacher...Saying she was upset about something and wanted to come home...so I picked her up at school. She gets into the car crying and my all fired up three year old son says "no crying on my birthday! Mommy, she's crying on my birthday" ..... I tried.... I tried really hard not to laugh...how insensitive of me, to laugh, but he kept saying it, over and over...until we made it home. oh, the antics of motherhood.

~ Self Portrait Challenge ~

2006-10-23T19:40:00.000-07:00

I don't feel like emphasizing my imperfections, so be it.

Besame Mucho

2006-08-30T23:39:00.000-07:00

Finally, ART.

Tomorrow is the last day of school for the week and I couldn't be happier about it. My daughter had a good day today, nothing major...although, I feel a few of my insecurities starting to surface.... my daughter asked me why her teacher is always so pretty, then continued by asking me why I never wear high heels. Me... in high heels.... not a chance.

Your comments and emails have been wonderful and helpful...thank you. thank you.

Take your peaceful feelings and go share them with others.

My yoga instructor always says that after class...I love it!

SPC....~ enclosed~ in the ones I love

2006-08-29T23:03:00.000-07:00

Another school day....how many more to go? I picked up my daughter from school today. The first thing she told me was that she cried for me today. My heart aches. So tell me...how do you do it? How do you let them grow to be the flowers they need to be without blocking the sun? I know the answer, but I don't like it.

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da,

2006-08-28T22:36:00.000-07:00

Feeling a bit languid this evening. I think I shall surrender to my pillow soon, but I just had to share this darling picture with you, my dear Kindergartener and her little brother. Honestly, it was a long day, very quiet for the most part, but My daughter had a wonderful day, she really loved it. ~ insert Proud mother smile here ~

Thank you so much for your thoughtful words to me today! I greatly appreciate it! I wish you all the comfort, joys, and vitality you need to get through to where you are going!

Hey maybe I will even post some artwork sometime soon...it has been awhile, hasn't it.

Nikki, thank you for the tea and chocolates, and Melanie, some distraction and a cup of coffee...Sounds perfect!

"The time has come,"...... the Walrus said,"

2006-08-27T18:23:00.000-07:00

"To talk of many things...
...Indeed it has. The time has come, that I have not been looking forward to at all. Tomorrow morning we will be sending our little girl off to kindergarten. Her clothes are ironed, her lunch is packed, her new book bag by the door..... And all of a sudden I have a headache, tummy ache, my heart is tight, there is a lump in my throat, my eyes keep watering and I don't want to go to school tomorrow.....I think I am coming down with something terrible...something I have had before.... the mommy blues. I thought for sure that an entire year in preschool would have prepared me for this, yet it has not. Actually, I think it is a bit worse this time around...this time it's the real deal, we have to send her...and she is so badly wants to go too. Tonight, as I was ironing her outfits for the week, she came in and said, "mommy, why is your face red, are you crying? You're crying because I am going to school and you are going to miss me, aren't you? You know I will still see you at night and we can cuddle then." All said with a smirkingly cute and innocent face. I know I should be glad that she is so thrilled to go, and I am. I guess what I am afraid of is that tomorrow when she comes home from school, all of her sweet and tender innocence that she is so full of, will be swept away, gone. She will storm through the door with a dog-eat-dog attitude, telling me how it is.... I guess that's my fear from here on out. Although, deep down, if I dig, I know that's not true, and if I stay on the right track,
nurturing her as I have been, hopefully she will not sprout sharp little horns. And don't even try to tell me it gets easier...I know that's not true.

I have to go through all of this again, with my little guy... he will be turning three soon enough! I think tomorrow is going to be just as hard on him as it is on me. He doesn't really understand that his one and only favorite sidekick won't be here with him daily for the rest of the school year. I have learned so much from their relationship, being that I am an only child and all, everyday they amaze me. All day long they are together, side by side, playing one game after another. They have their moments, believe me, there are many times I have to separate them. For the most part they truly love one another, like no relationship I have ever had.

So many mixed emotions lately...many changes, so much going on. Sometimes I feel like curling into a tiny ball and rolling back into the very quiet life I once had, then other times I feel like summiting the closest mountain, so I can stand there, arms widespread, and yell... "alright life, bring it on"........right now, I am not so sure how I am feeling...somewhere in between goodnight moon and oh, the places you'll go.