Sometimes “traditions” need to be put aside in order to meet and greet what’s ahead in our lives. As our grown children move into new phases with their own children, we’ve found it’s essential to be flexible and try to meet them where they are. At least for our family, it’s not realistic for us to assume that we can all gather on one day, in one house around a big table. This year, Christmas came several times for us – one on Christmas Eve, with two of our families, after a lovely church service and with a delicious meal of take-out Chinese; another at a halfway-point restaurant in St. Coud to enjoy a meal with our family in from Arizona; and then on December 30 with tacos and fixings and the opening of presents at our daughter’s boyfriend’s home. And we’ll have one more celebration this weekend with our dear family who just came home after two weeks in the hospital with their oldest daughter. Life is dynamic and we are just so thankful for the joyous times when we can be together.
This week’s painting is back to the sheep – these three came charging around a stone wall and I just had to paint them. “Sheep on the Run” – 9” x 9” on 300 lb. hot prese watercolor paper. I enjoy painting on this “smoother” paper – the paint is absorbed differently and it really encourages a looser brush style (not my usual MO) and results in softer edges.
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