mucha cosa

or in other words…lots o’ stuff happening.
lots of good stuff.
been loving, oh so loving, getting my groove back with designing. writing. creating.
it’s like letting a little butterfly out of my head that’s been trapped under a rock. ok, silly analogy but you catch my drift. i love to create. to envision something. to work at it. to bring it to life. and then to relish in it. there is something therapeutic about that. yeah, i guess you could say creation is an eternal principle. hmmm, i didn’t intend to draw that conclusion. but as i write, it just makes sense.
so my latest project has me completely and utterly in love.

introducing…the masks. superheroes.

with a last name like mask, i figured it was high time to do something fun with it. and this was the result. liked it so much, i revamped maskfam.com. yeah, baby! whoo-hoo.

other FABULOUS stuff happening as well. after two weeks of everyday classes, THE D-MAN IS A SWIMMER! which is a big thing in our family. huge. positively huge.
because this mommy is not a swimmer. there. i said it. i don’t know how to swim. (big sigh) my embarassing secret is out. you may think it’s not so embarassing. but for a teenager in junior high hanging out at a pool party after school. it is a secret. one of those things where you know you’ll feel mortified if anyone knows. and so you stay at the shallow end hoping. seriously hoping that no one will ask you go off the diving board or into the deep end. the deep end is torture. memories of childhood flood back of hanging on to the side for dear life while people try to pull you into the deep. the treacherous deep.
and so you carry it with you hoping no one finds out for fear you’ll be thought of as weird. and i’m still carrying it. or better said, i don’t offer it up in regular conversation while at the pool. "hey, i can’t swim! how about you?" 🙂
i really do want to learn. i need to. as a mom, i need to. but for now, we’re making progress. this kid is going to be a swimmer if i can help it. he finished his class today. jumped into the deep and swam across.
and do you think this mom was celebrating??????

oh, just a little!