My Artist

My kids are artistic. They come by it completely naturally of course as it runs in the family ;-). My mom was artistic and creative in so many ways, both of my brothers are artists- one in metal, the other in ink and my sister is a well-known artist whose paintings have won many competitions. In fact I was the only kid who didn't inherit any artistic talent! Maybe I was really adopted. Just kidding. Anyway- Kim has become quite the artist and I want to take a minute to showcase a few of her recent drawings. As you can see she's influenced by the Japanese Animee /Manga tradition.

School Pix

Here are the 2009 School Photos- not the best but good portraits are hard I find. Corey just turned 9 and is in 4th grade, Eli is 6 and in kindergarten.Alia is 6 and is in 1st grade and Kim will be 12 in a week (!) and is in 7th grade! She looks younger in her photo this year- perhaps because her hair isn't pulled back the way she usually wears it.

Orphan Sunday

I hope some of you will check this out;

http://www.orphansunday.org/

Maybe there's an event near you. There's one near us and we intend to go.

Flu

We have all succumbed to the flu. I don't know which version- all the CDC website says is the symptoms are pretty much the same and if you get one or the other you should just stay home and keep from infecting other people. So we've been staying home for the past 4 days! I wish I could say we're on the mend but it's an odd thing- you feel a bit better and the fever goes down and then, Wham! You spike a 103 temp and start coughing up a lung. Needless to say it's not fun nursing 4 sick kids when you are sick as well!

We got our first rainstorm of the season these past two days- making it easier to convince kids to hunker down and stay cozy. Nice to not have to be out and about in it!