Adrift at Sea

This is a new painting by my husband. It is an image of me mixed in with drawings from sketchbooks that he did when he was a child. I have to give my husband alot of credit. He can work all day, be a dad when he gets home and somehow muster the energy to paint after everyone goes to bed. I on the other hand think about doing that and end up watching "Project Runway". 

On a different note, I am not sure I will be able to take my kids only going to school half day for much longer. There is constant fighting. I have tried to help out a couple people by having their kids over so they can go to work. This always sounds like a good idea. It is hard to have kids come over at 7:30 in the morning. No one is in the mood to play, all kids have a different morning routine and they don't always like to be flexible. Hopefully we only have one more week but there is no guarantee. I feel fortunate I can be home and I don't have to scramble to find child care.

I was on the 11:00 news the other night. I went to the school board meeting and went up to the podium to speak and thank teachers, administrators and parents for all the hard work they have put into this effort of moving our kids to a different school. I am very tired of the negativity and thought some positive feelings needed to be expressed. After I had sat down a woman from the news tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I could speak to her in the hallway. When I got there they got the camera out. I did not realize it would be filmed. I was asked a lot of questions and again remained very positive. She asked me how this all started and how my kids were coping. I came home and watched the news hoping they would cut this segment. Just when I thought it wasn't going to be on there was me talking. Of course the one sound bite they used was not all the positive things I said about how well everything was going. They went with the rehashing of how this all started. I guess the positive just doesn't go over as well.