ahem...

Remember me? The once crafty and relatively prolific artiste/mommy type? I hardly remember myself lately...nothing of the artsy or the craftsy has been accomplished in FOREVER. My skin is crawling because of it. I'm pretty sure I'm in full on withdrawal now. I need my craft crack (to borrow a term from my friend Dawn) and I need it now!

Well, that's not entirely true. I did make several attempts at a yellow and orange postcard before finally starting and completing one that I was satisfied with. Click here to take a peek. But aside from that, seriously, no art, no craft for weeks now.

Lynn has been travelling a lot lately so my usual evening breaks and their usual boys' nights out haven't been available. With the nice weather, our weekends have been spent out and about. I have been to Six Flags FOUR times already this season. That's three more times than I went all last year. It's sort of a requirement that I go now because Caleb can ride more of the rides and doesn't want to be left out at all. We all have a good time and when my brother, Nic, comes with us we get to ride all the big people rides too. But in the back of my head I'm thinking, "I could be at the torch, the sewing machine, somewhere in my studio making something right now!" The boys want to be outside riding tricycles and skateboards and they are both entirely too young to be out front by themselves so my flower beds are looking really nice. I suppose that should count for accomplishing something creative, but for some reason it doesn't feel like it. Logan is now keenly interested in reading and writing and the like so I spend a good deal of my day reading things, explaining things, writing things, repeating things. Not that I didn't before, it's just that now he is totally voracious about it all the time from breakfast to bedtime and I don't want to slow his momentum. With this new shift in our lives I am having trouble finding my balance again. I know it will come back to me, I just wish it was already here.