Lots of love happening over at the I Carry Your Heart Blog today.
This week’s image, for us, was from a backyard finger painting session. Painting with children and seeing a photo of children painting are two very different things. It’s kind of like when somebody sends you a picture of a sleeping baby – it looks so peaceful and calm.
But the truth is, most of the time, it took LOTS and LOTS of hard work to finally get that baby to ‘sleep like a baby’.
Painting with kids, or at least my kids, is like that.
It looks like we should have Mozart piping through a fake speaker shaped like a rock, something we don’t have, but really I was probably chiming in, often, asking them not to get too much paint in their hair.
It was calm for a bit and I attempt to provide opportunities for my kids to freely express their inner artist.
I’m just not the mom that is into my walls getting painted.
So, while it looks like they’re having a zen, Picasso-ish time, they both busted through about 20 sheets of paper and then Audrey hit ‘body-paint-mode,’ which lead to a warm bath.
Painting like Picasso or Sleeping Like a Baby, whichever title it is, the work is well worth it.