So I Was Just Thinking

...in blues, greens, yellows and reds. Chily-Pepah took the most beautiful photo while on holiday in Florida this past week. I was so drawn to it (pardon the pun) that I had to sketch it. Then I got out the kids' colored pencils and did my best to replicate those colors. It's the first non human, non doodley picture I have done in a while. I put this on the Sketchbook Challenge Flickr group under the theme opposites because it is such a departure from my usual style. It's my favorite!

I usually love my birthday week. Doesn't everyone celebrate birthday weeks? This week though found me with just me and the kids. Every morning I had to be at work by 7 a.m. to stand and watch a relatively empty hallway at school. One morning, I couldn't find my i.d. card so I couldn't get through the gate on post. I had to drive home, dump my purse and run through my memory of when I used the card last....I last saw it on Election Day at the polls. Then I had to remember what raincoat I was wearing. This made me 10 minutes late for duty. My mother went out of town and of course, my husband doesn't live here anymore, so I made plans with a couple of friends to go to one of our favorite hangouts after school today. I also made arrangements to take my friend and her kids and my kids to the World Hunger Farm for their Farm Day. Unfortunately, plans have changed. My friend had to ground both boys because of some majorly severe actions that occurred at school, and I found out...