The Family has a cold, we are
all hacking and doing our best. The washing machine is doing overtime as I’ve
transitioned my Peanut from disposable diapers to cloth as he weighs about 8lbs
now and the super tiny little chicken legs have put on enough meat that those
cloth elastics aren’t too loose. Part of
my problem is I didn’t bother with super mini cloth diapers.. but favour the
one size adjustable kind... He will use
the same 24 diapers I bought for Chicken Little that saw him through
from 10 days old until I Potty Trained him 2 months ago. At 26 months – he’s a potty pro! It only took
a couple weeks before I was able to transition back to normal after being a
complete wacko, obsessed with my son’s bodily functions trying to - Time it, Predict it, Anticipate it.... and inevitably mopping up
pee off the floor.
It is amazing.. 8 weeks in
and I’m on top of things for the most part again. I’m swings kids, and housework, and dinners
and laundry and all the domestic tasks of a mom. But I’ve also found some balance in my
life. The kind that creates sanity and
provides its own rewards.
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| The Fishermen Three - Wynken, Blynken and Nod
Watercolour
© RiverWalker Arts
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Namely I’m painting
again.
I’ve also learned something very cool.
Did you know that the average children’s book is 32 pages long.
Yup. Bet you didn’t know that. I certainly had never noticed. In fact some books will leave 2 or 3 completely blank empty white pages at the end of the story just to fill up that standard 32 pages. Wild. I have been counting pages like a lunatic since I found this out. I don’t think I’ll ever look at a picture book the same way again. My kids are going to grow up frustrated as I count spreads while I read to them!
I’ve also learned something very cool.
Did you know that the average children’s book is 32 pages long.
Yup. Bet you didn’t know that. I certainly had never noticed. In fact some books will leave 2 or 3 completely blank empty white pages at the end of the story just to fill up that standard 32 pages. Wild. I have been counting pages like a lunatic since I found this out. I don’t think I’ll ever look at a picture book the same way again. My kids are going to grow up frustrated as I count spreads while I read to them!
A very lovely lady who runs
the local “mother goose” program for babies told me this... and I’m just so
amazed that even with some gagillion children’s books in my collection – I’ve
NEVER noticed this. Apparently Picture
books are in increments of 8 because of the way the paper is cut from the
printed sheets. So... with my Wynken
Blynken & Nod project at 14 completed image spreads.... I’m looking at 28
pages... plus end pages? I’m closer than
I realized..
Not that any publishing company
is going to pick me up, and this will be entirely a homemade affair, but I might
as well follow the standards!
Now to prep for the craft
fair next weekend, and then there are all those Christmas gifts that need a personal
touch of a homemade something.... and
maybe shortly after Christmas I’ll have
a book to share...
Life is about Living.
You've
got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and
you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D.
Woodhull
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