Category: Misc

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Drawing Late at Night

So we were drawing late one night and Curie a picture (top left) of a princess then asked Albert to draw one too (on the left top). Elia in the mean time drew her first people that we know of (top right). Curie was going on about Albert’s drawing so he asked if she wanted him to teach her how to draw and so drew Curie using the basic egg proportions as a template (lower left). Curie then drew her version using the lesson (middle bottom), and then Elia, who had only started to draw people drew her own version using the same lesson. The improvement is remarkable on all three.

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By Request: “Wedding Day” Drawings

Curie and Elia asked me to draw them as adults on their wedding days. The left is Elia’s and the right is Curie’s I drew Curie’s first. Hm, all of that anime/manga drawing coming back for a new reason (making daughters happy)? Curie asked me to draw a boy too, I think that is too much for me emotionally, this was hard enough.

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The Flower at the End of the Bed

We normally blog in third person so that it there is a consistency in the writing, but here is one that I wrote in first person that I really wanted the kids to read some day. I want them to know that though we often wish it weren’t, parenting is often survival and getting through the day. Today, thankfully, was not one of those days.

I’ve been very tired and tonight, I was lying in bed in the guest room with Elia who was waving around an artificial flower from IKEA, I was just about to ask her to stop, because it might be dangerous, when Continue reading “The Flower at the End of the Bed”

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Best, Most Recent, Nap

From Albert: “Best most recent nap I’ve had was the second half of the movie when Elia fell asleep on my lap in the reclining seat at the Courthouse theater. My Little Pony the Movie: will need to ask Curie and Erin what happened after the mermaid pony turned into a hippogriff when the talking cat rounded up the bird pirates and gave the ponies a pep talk – yep.”

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Hard Drive Found

In April of 2016, I lost the hard drive with all of our pictures on it and had to resurrect it from a back-up and many flash cards (I stopped reusing flash cards a while back). I thought I had lost it in Indiana on a work trip. Fast forward to yesterday, it turns out I put it into the appropriate drawer just in case I did lose it and then forgot. The funny thing is now one TB is no longer sufficient, so it is just an archive drive now.