My kids love to draw, so I've scheduled into our homeschooling day some time for drawing instruction.
Jaden is working through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (the workbook), and he and I have been extremely pleased with it so far. After only a week, I think his drawing has already improved. The girls are using two different books that include basically the same lessons: Joely is using Drawing Textbook by Bruce McIntyre, and Jerah is using Mark Kistler's Draw Squad. Joely has been having a blast drawing ellipses and turning them into cans, birthday cakes, and candles.
Earlier this evening I Stumbled Upon a wonderful drawing blog, appropriately named The Drawing Blog, that I think my kids will really enjoy reading. The blog owner, BreezyTulip, is a wonderful artist who writes very concise, easy-to-understand drawing lessons that my older kids will be able to benefit from. I love to draw as well, so I'm looking forward to visiting BreezyTulips site quite often.
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Joely seems to have a habit of getting sick—as in "get-a-bucket-over-here-quick-or-I'm-spewing-on-the-couch" kind of sick—and then bouncing back minutes later like it never happened.
Like today, for instance.
As I wrote earlier, she woke up this morning—the day of her birthday party—feeling a little puny. She tried to eat a little toast for breakfast, moped around a little bit saying she still felt yucky, sat on the couch…and hurled. On the couch. And did I mention she managed to hit the ottoman as well?
But thirty minutes later, after a bath and a new, clean outfit to wear, she was wrestling with her brother! And she was fine the rest of the day. Why can't I bounce back like that when I'm sick?
Joely's funny this way, though. She rarely has a lingering illness (thank the Lord!), so when she's sick, she's only sick for a day or so—or as in this case a couple hours or so.
But I'm not complaining. I'm really not. I'm so very thankful that my kids are as healthy as they are.
I'm just saying it's a little strange is all. As Dr. Seuss would say (in Fox in Socks), Joely's just a little Quick-Sick-Chick.
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