Painting...

I love when we take the time to paint and draw together.

I used to do so much drawing and sketching...not so much anymore with kids.

I would love to start doing it more.

It brings me so much joy to sit down with my girls and see how much they love it, like I do...and also, it makes me happy that I have things I can teach them...and it makes me happy that there is actually some talent that I passed down to them.

But as far as talent goes...I used to be much better.
When you don't continue with something it goes away, right...

So I am going to try to do this more with my kids.

That way we can all benefit, right!

And I just had to include a funny little thing from Cassi.

At our family white elephant exchange party last week Madi got a set of sundae dishes...for ice cream.

She was very excited about them.

The last few days Cassi has been asking, "Can I have some water in those church glasses?" and "When are we gonna use those church bowls."

It took me a little while to figure out what in the world she was talking about!

Tonight after dinner I told them they could have ice cream if they kept the house clean and didn't fight.

They weren't too bad.

So they got ice cream.

In Madi's sundae bowls.

Cassi was so happy that we were finally using the church glasses.

(Get it...sundae, sunday, church...)

Silly kid.

In hind-sight...this is the kind of thing that is much funnier when you are there in person.