Things are looking up.

I think I've killed the last of these nightmarish guys.

I got the girls signed up for swimming lessons.  By the end of next week, I think I will have 3 swimmers and I will call this summer a great success.  We've attended a few YMCA swim lessons and it never took.  I think this time will be different.  I feel it in my bones.

I watched some video on painting clouds.  I love the idea of a subtle rainbow emerging out of a gray cloud bank.  Rainbows are beautiful in the sky, but I'm not a huge fan of a Roy G Biv color scheme in my home, usually, because it reminds me of a little girls' bedroom.  

But I do love that God gives a sign of His promise to all generations, not just that He would never again cut off all flesh by the waters of the flood, but that the rainbow is a "battle-bow" hung in the sky, pointed away from earth.  

From the Jesus Story Book Bible - "God's strong anger against hate and sadness and death would come down once more - but not on His people, or His world.  No, God's war bow was not pointing down at His people.  It was pointing up, into the heart of Heaven."

I love that.  So, I want to paint it.  It is going to be tricky for it to not look like a cartoon rainbow.  Some day, I'll show you my rainbow and hopefully you won't laugh.

Ha, I keep saying I'll show you my curtains and ottomans and paintings that I heaven't even begun to work on.  I'm good at dreaming this stuff up, but it's hard to make it happen.  

Someone asked me the other day if I was considering going back to work now that the girls are getting older, and that horrified me.  I just thought, "Do I have to?"  I just like being a mom and look forward to being able to keep the house cleaner and sew more often.  Maybe if I Etsy a few things I can tell people I work from home and they'll think my work is legit.  Okay, that's my 5-year plan.  I'll perfect my rainbow paintings and sell them on Etsy.