baby won’t sleep – WENDERFLONIATIONS

Having a family is very fulfilling, sometime to the point of overflowing excessively. Like the kind of full that you have to use a super-absorbant microfiber towel just to catch it all. I am totally enjoying my busy little family, but It might be wearing me out…. Just a little bit….I have serious bags under my eyes. Seriously, don’t stare too long at them!

Ok there would be visible bags under my had I not purposefully overexposed my face, but I’m sure you get the point.

So you wanna know who does NOT have bags under his eyes? This guy:

How in the world he manages to get his beauty rest on such little sleep I will never know. I’m just sayin’, Jude….Would it kill ya to nap every now and then. Trust me, naps are a beautiful thing. Nevertheless, we endeavor to truck on and do what we can.

I am ready to embrace the fall weather but it seems that summer still wants to persist. I am attempting to scare the warmness away and bring on the chill with a few spooky decorations. I’ve never decorated the yard for Halloween before so I decided to live a little on the wild side and purchase a few Hallowcheesy things to get us into the spirit. Pretty sure it was my best effort yet….Never mind that this is the first time:

I think it turned out pretty cool and most importantly we had a great time doing it.

In in other news, I think Baby J and Mags the Dog are in cahoots…..Not sure about what, but they have been acting very suspicious lately:

See?! It’s enough to drive you batty!

Stay tuned for more up to the minute month info on the goings on in Wenderflonia….Notice there wasn’t any talk about painting. I am at a loss as to when I can find the time and inspiration and I am becoming ok with that. I am enjoying my family at the moment and all the chaos that goes with all their creative whirlwinds. But of you must know, BFS has been doing some terrific work lately. You can check it out here.

Peace and Love,

Wenders

p.s. all photos taken with my iphone and then overly post processed with shakeit photo and camerabag apps because I am addicted

Potentially next up will be tales of my harrowing adventures through photoshop training…. that sh@*’s hard! Just so you know.

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errrr… What was I saying? Oh yes, I was trying to remind myself to blog more, but I keep getting distracted for some reason. I am so busy these days that sometimes I even forget to finish getting dressed. I’m pretty sure the UPS man has been fully traumatized by now. It’s too bad I haven’t been keeping up with my blogs because some major happenings have been taking place in our family and my Wenderfloina world. Now I have to spill it all in one long rambling post.

Jude is 10 whole weeks old and time is flying by at a blinding pace. He is doing so many fun things like smiling, cooing, and laughing. He is also doing some not so fun things like show his emerging temper, decide not to take a bottle of expressed milk no matter what you promise, and decide that he no longer needs to nap or sleep ever again, in his whole life. He told me so. Anyway, he keeps me very occupied. Like right now. You won’t really be able to tell, but I am going to have to pause and save this as a draft and see if I can convince him to go to sleep. Just for tonight and then he can stay up for the rest of his life if he so chooses. Just sleep..Pause….Pause….Pause….He disagreed…He is mulling over his decision to remain awake in his crib right this very second…

Meanwhile… other happenings are, as a family we decided to eat better. I spent a fateful day watching several documentaries that made me open my eyes about the state of our food consumption. The most influential of which was Food, Inc. This documentary also helped me make a decision I had been contemplating for a while now. I gave up meat. I have been following a vegetarian diet for almost a month and don’t plan on going back. Parker and BFS are still amongst the flesh eaters but that’s ok with me. Mine is a personal decision. However, as a family, we switched to organic foods, simple foods that have as few additives as possible, no GMOs, growing vegetables and herbs in our own little garden, and their meat and our eggs are cruelty free…etc etc. Our mission is to make food joyous, and a priority. To know what we are putting into our body and why. I’ve even decided to make all our own bread. We are also following Jamie Oliver and his food revolution. He is desperately trying to get America to wake up to the appalling way in which the government and schools are feeding our sweet babies while they are in school. I am totally on board.

These guys will thank me for it later. I’m pretty sure…

In the mean time, I must pause again to re-convince the tiny sleepless one that sleep is, in fact, a good thing. And sleeping at least 10 hours at night will ensure that he lives to 100. No joke…..check this out.

Pause…Pause…Pause….

On the Wederflonations front, my painting time has been at an all time low. I’m still having a hard time fitting it into my schedule. However, I have recommitted my self to truck on through these rough patches and do what I can. I did FINALLY manage to finish a commissioned piece for a beautiful soul and will be mailing this to her on Tuesday. Just in time for Mother’s day.

I really can’t post a picture of the painting in her entirety because the new owner wants to be surprised, but as soon as she receives it I will post a pic and brag and brag. I just love how it turned out.

Oh! Also, I landed another job and will start working on that commissioned piece tomorrow

…hopefully….one moment please…Insomniobaby is calling…pause….pause…pause…..

Lastly, and most excitedly, I got my Mother’s Day gift from my favorite guys in the whole world. I will be registering for Kelly Rae Roberts’ Flying Lessons e-course. Mrs. Roberts is truly an inspirational artist and was inadvertently responsible for my reemergence into the art world. I will be posting more details later. I couldn’t think of a better gift. Thank you so much men of mine!

pause…..pause…pause…..

The house is quiet now. This is my cue to sleep while the sleepin’s good. Peace and Love.

and in the mean time, check out my etsy shop……… riiight [here]

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