It's All About The Prom

So art as well as everything else in my life took a backseat on Friday because it was my youngest daugher's prom.  Crazy, exciting non stop day of running and driving trying to do my best to make sure it was a perfect day for her..... and it was.  A 90 minute visit to see my favourite hair stylist Eric at Salon ID where she was treated like a queen ... big thanks to them as always.... eventually we arrived back home to gather her "stuff" then off to her friends where all the girls were getting their make up done then out to the park for pics.  There was a dinner at the local country club and then an after party...and no I don't want to know about the after party .. I can only imagine...

Can't believe my baby is graduating high school ... such a beautiful and exciting journey in store for her...

A Short Guide To A Happy Life

Hope Floats

12"x36"

Mixed Media on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

In Progress..........

This morning as I was listening to The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright on CBC,  I was surprised to learn one of my favourite authors was about to be interviewed. .....  I love Anna Quindlen.  I've always enjoyed her books, her sense of humor and her uncanny ability to write characters that you feel you may in some way or another,  know.  Her books make me think about them long after I've turned the last page.

About six years ago around Christmas time I was in a Chapters,  just wandering around looking at books and I eventually came across "A Short Guide to A Happy Life".  It is a small book laced with words strung together so beautifully you can't help but stand there and read the entire thing...which is exactly what I did.
That day I bought seven copies and gave them to my closest friends as Christmas gifts...I kept one for myself and after hearing Anna Quindlen speak today I went looking for it.  I imagine to say I sent looking for it was an understatement as I actually turned the house upside down trying to remember where I put it.

At some point I gave up and decided it wasn't meant to be found yet.

This June my oldest daughter graduates high school and in September leaves for university.  I wish I were as great a writer as Anna Quindlen so I could have written this to her before she leaves.

Anna Quindlen's commencement addresss to Villanova University.......

Changes

Today is my youngest daughter's last day at elementary school. On Tuesday she graduated, complete with long dress, hair in an updo and a boy whose mother picked them up in her minivan. When I looked at her in her long white dress, so beautiful, I so fondly remembered the first day I took her to kindergarden. I worried endlessly about how her first day would go. She had a great time. It was me who was having the difficulty. In September she heads off to high school to join my oldest child. Wow, will I have two children in high school? It seems impossible, yet it is true. At graduation on Tuesday night, she received the Principal's Award for Student Leadership and yes, I was so proud. I am proud at what wonderful young women they have grown up to be. So kind, so compassionate and caring toward others.

Such a good friend to many. They are truly my greatest accomplishment.