goosey goosey gander where shall i wander?
Upstairs or downstairs or in my lady’s chamber?
I promise that rumours of my early demise are largely exaggerated. I know that I have a blog. I know that I should add to my blog…it just hasn’t happened for so many (and largely lame) reasons.
Since The Little Bush Princess started Kindy the pace of life has changed for me more than I could ever have imagined. If I said I missed her sooooooooooooooo much during the day then I would only be telling you one 16th of how keenly I feel her absence. I always knew that she was the constant voice in my day. What I didn’t realise was how much that little chirping meant to me. On so many levels.
I spent the first week of her absence walking around ‘down the street’ (which I think to the rest of the world means window shopping). I did this so much that my feet ached. That had to stop.
So then I moved on to cleaning the house. The problem was that no matter how much I cleaned it the house still looked largely the same. Mostly because I couldn’t bring myself to clean up the kids little games that they’d left when they toddled off to school.
Oh I could go on. You just need to know that every fibre of my being missed my kids, my husband was travelling and it was lonely.
This week just gone I went to a watercolour painting class. I think this brings my total of art classes since High School to three. I think I should do things like it more often. For the first time in weeks I felt like I had achieved something other than missing my family. I worked on the geese above (excuse the crappy image, our scanner is not cutting edge technology…it didn’t deal very well with scanning a white goose on a white page…oh and the geese have feet…and another goose…the printer just wouldn’t allow for them) and I look forward to doing more on them next month.
The follow on effect of the geese is that I’m now planning things to come. I plan to sit at my sewing machine (my NEW sewing machine) for the first time in weeks. I plan on picking up scissors and I plan on drafting up some patterns.
Can’t mope forever right?
Every stage of life has it’s less than comfortable adjustments, but then new doors and interests open and move us forward. Believe it or not eventually you will come to love the quietness of the day and wonder how it passed so quickly when the school bus pulls up.
xoxo
Kim
21 Feb 2010 at 10:06 am
he jen!
i dont know what you’re talking out with the white background, i think it looks just beautiful!!
i will have to show you a balerina i did, it just has the shadows of her not the entire balerina, i think it was a bit artsy fartsy but i like it, and this reminded me of it.. great minds think alike! haha!
xx
21 Feb 2010 at 10:53 am
I do feel for you. It is amazing how quiet the house gets when little ones are not there for a while. It does look like you are starting to settle down into a bit of a routine though. I am sure it will get easier as time goes on. Your geese are just wonderful. I think they look especially lovely on a white background. Somehow it makes them look calm and peaceful. Great job Jenny.
x
21 Feb 2010 at 11:48 am
The Geese are beautiful and it’s good that they’ve helped you get to grips with a quiet house. I was the same when Toby started school and I suppose it’s the natural result of throwing yourself into full-on motherhood. There’s not much time to think about yourself when you’re constantly catering to the needs of little ones. You do find yourself again though and get comfy with the peace and time and it’s lovely at the end of the school day when they come rolling in full of excitement at the things they’ve learnt and experienced!
26 Feb 2010 at 4:36 am
I think you should take yourself off to art classes more often. Because it feeds your soul. And right now there is a little hole that needs patching up with something…right??? Right!!!
The geese are just goosey gander! I love them. I love them white! I want a pair for my wall!
Keep putting that brush to canvas my beautiful friend… you are too fabulous NOT to!
03 Mar 2010 at 10:05 am
Your painting is brilliant! I don’t know why you are not doing illustration professionally! I find that it’s impossible to get a good scan of watercolor for whatever reason. I think taking a good photo is sometimes better.
05 Mar 2010 at 5:34 am