Tuesdays need a little something to keep them going around here. Jonathan leaves by 7:15am and doesn’t get back until around 8:45pm. I usually need something to look forward to so the day doesn’t drag on and on and ON. Today especially so, since sister woke up at 5:45 (just to make sure she saw Dada before he left, of course) and it was raining. 
We finished breakfast and her first nap, ran all our errands, poked around in the library for some new books from the library and still ended up back at home by 10:15 as Wendy was yawning for her second nap. (“what? Only 10?”) It seemed the perfect time to introduce Charlie to watercolors.
And since it was a spur of the moment decision I hadn’t had a chance to get any “kid” supplies. We used my real paint from tubes 
my “real” brushes from art school 
and genuine paper (the expensive, sold by weight kind). It really is better that way! 
And since we were being real artists, we ate our lunch when we got hungry without pausing our work. 
The results were far beyond what I would have imagined possible! And I love that I got to paint today!
[ ‘Lion’ -- A joint effort by Mama and Charlie.]
