Yesterday, Ryker (14) & Marina (13) along with over 150 'friends' loaded 4 huge charter busses to make the 6 hour trip down to Antelope, Oregon for 5 days of camp at "Wildhorse Canyon", a Young Life (non-denominational Christian) owned facility. This is Ryker's 3rd and Marina's 2nd time going to this fun camp. I think they've been counting down the days since last August!
Meanwhile, Jordan (11) who already went to his camp earlier in the summer (his 2nd year at Camp of the Cascades, another Christian camp) has been looking forward to his time as an "only child", relishing the idea of having both parents and all THREE dogs to himself.
Our first day was spent going to Jordan's (Jzo is his sports nickname) championship game in a soccer tournament he was guest playing in, that is, it wasn't his club team participating, but he was asked to play with another local team who needed more players for this past weekend. They came in 2nd, and brought home some "hardware"... that's always exciting!
I also spent some of the afternoon working on new samples for some of the art projects I'll be utilizing in the classes I'm teaching this upcoming semester @ Museo (http://www.museoart.com/) check out their website if you want to see more about that part of my life. I've got a lot of work to do to be prepared before classes begin right after Labor Day, and with our family vacation coming in a couple weeks, that leaves just this week and next to get all ready. Oh, the pressure! It's a good pressure, I need a bit of 'stress' to get out of my procrastination habits.
It had been MONTHS since my art room looked like this... I finally got my table cleared of remnants of old projects, paint spills, and mostly just JUNK. So, Saturday I forced myself to "clear the decks" and give myself some space to work on these new projects.
My good friend Kelly & I are constantly challenging ourselves (& each other) to keep our "rooms" well organized and tidy... neither of us has been super successful with this, but we sure have fun finding new containers and design ideas which inspire us!
The above photo was taken on the 12th, and by that evening this is what the table looked like, and now it's the 13th, and I just took this photo. We'll see if after I finish this batch of projects, I'll be able to get it looking cleared off and clean again... stay tuned.
Jordan (who is still sleeping in this a.m.) will soon leave for Museo, where I am sub-teaching a couple classes. I took the summer off, so it's unusual for me to be going there, but the classes are kids classes today, so Jzo will have fun being my assistant (and working on the art lessons himself I predict!).
This is my first ever blog, so if you managed to get thru reading this, I thank you for your interest!
5 comments:
Congratulations, Tina! I'm thrilled, to say the least, that you started your own blog! I love it! This is a cute title too. And I didn't realize that you have three dogs. That's crazy in an of itself. Enjoy your time with the kids away at camp. How fun...
Now you've encouraged me to get busy for the day on my room. Gotta run to Target to pick up more containers!
Kelly, yay... I'm excited too - but I wonder if you & I will be the only ones checking this out... oh well. Have you found out how to save your archived postings to a storage device so you can have a record of all this down the road?
Apparently, Tina, there are several resources available. My UBER Blogging friend, Heidi, says that if you just do a simple search, you'll find a lot of options. I haven't done one yet, but plan to sometime, as I've been doing my blog for a year now. It's nice to have a good record of what I've been up to!
Tina, I just left a 10 minute BLOG--- It got 'wiped out' while trying to"PUBLISH" and establishing a Google Acc't.
BASIC MSG ---GOOD!! I'm not going to redo the long BLOG
Luv dad
Cute picture, Tina! Your hair looks nice.
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