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Sketches and the Self: Portraits of Mater (and Nana. And Me.)

My daughter sketched this from a photo last year

(As you begin reading, let me say that I know sometimes you don't make it to the bottom of the post -- but the bottom of this one features a link to a post about a nude portrait. Of me. Seriously. . . . Oh, come on, that doesn't mean you need to jump right down to the bottom and skip everything else ;-)

We're back home from our four-day baby-sitting gig. Honestly, it was lovely to have time with the Almost-Four and her baby brother. Lovely and exhausting. He's crawling everywhere now and is experimenting with ways to get vertical, so the opportunities to clonk his head or put inappropriate finds into his mouth were frighteningly abundant. And, of course, while you adapt to this when the children are your own, it's much harder to shrug off a topple that ends with a bruise when you're the visiting grandparents.

The Ten sketched this in about ten minutes, chiding me each time I moved. 

And hitting the right note when it comes to maintaining some semblance of structure and discipline requires considerable energy as well. I think we did a good enough job that we will be invited back again, and we had fun doing it.

The Six was so attentive to detail -- She even sketched my Thomas Sabo French bulldog pendant

I'm ready now, though, to focus my time on my own projects, many of which have been in suspension since well before the holidays. Not just in suspension -- some of them have been crammed into boxes and tucked away to make room for the SofaBed to be unfolded and the dining table extended to accommodate 13 and a Christmas tree to be strung with lights and stand decorative guard over a sprawl of brightly wrapped gifts.  Now that the sofa and the table and the tree have moved out of my way, I'm claiming space again, unpacking boxes, opening files, and trying to decide what to start and what to finish.

Meanwhile -- have you noticed how often I use that word? It's begun to seem rather prominent around here, and I'm not sure what I think about that. Hmmm -- meanwhile, however, while I'm deciding and sorting and spreading the contents of boxes and projects all over the dining table, here are some portraits for you. Portraits of yours truly by my daughter, by my two oldest granddaughters, and by myself, the latter done while holding the sketchbook and looking in the mirror -- not ideal. My daughter's sketch is flattering (she gave me bigger eyes, fuller lips) and my own isn't. . .

Some of you might not have been reading this blog way back in 2010 when I wrote about the nude portrait I commissioned my good friend to paint as a birthday gift for my husband.  If you're interested, that painting still hangs in our bedroom (behind the door, so that it's not easily seen from the living-room!) -- and you can read the post here.

 But consider leaving a comment before you head off -- or come back once you've discovered how much I revealed in that post. . .  I do enjoy our conversations . . .

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