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Creativity while dealing with life's curve balls

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The last year and a half have been a challenge for our family and, in particular, the last nine months have taken much of my attention as Mom. Our youngest son was diagnosed Anxiety, causing ODD behaviors last June. We have been in therapy with him since that time. Weekly at first, then every two weeks, then three, then every six weeks - until yesterday - our most recent therapy session. Apparently we have "graduated" and that will be our last session (unless we have a major resurgence of problems). Admittedly, I am a little nervous going it alone, but the the therapist seems to have confidence in my skills to assess the situations and adapt our approach to his behavior in order to achieve positive results. I think child therapy sessions would really be more aptly named "parenting therapy." We have learned some great tools and techniques to help us better communicate with our little one as well as improve behavior and cooperation. But, there are always setbacks and

3 Paintings a day for 5 days on FB

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I was recently nominated by my friend (and fellow artist) Neena Plant-Henninger to do a challenge on Facebook: Post three paintings per day for five days - and nominate another artist to do the same each day that you post. They could be old or new paintings. The point: to fill Facebook with art images for the new year. Sounded fun, so I did! :) I tried to post around a bit of a theme for each day. Here are my five days' worth of paintings.  Day 1: Ballerinas (slightly older work) Day 2: Animals (more recent work) Day 3: Portraits (REALLY old work...but I still like them :)) Day 4: Kokopelli (more recent work - including a woven painting) Day 5: Butterflies (slightly older + more recent work - and, of course, I couldn't choose favorites, so three paintings turned into seven for this final day!) This was super fun, and also a good exercise for me. It helped me to realize that, even though I am facing the ch