OMG this blogging thing is so intimidating...I am so computer illiterate...Don't know how to add images or buttons or link to other blogs...all very confusing.  Guess I will just write for today, maybe purchase "Blogging for Dummies" this week. 

I have five children-ages 18 to 5, four boys and one girl (the girl is #4). She was supposed to be the caboose, but God had other plans. So now I am a 46 year old mother of a recent kindergarden graduate and a recent high school senior graduate!  I hope God knows what he is doing and where I am headed, cause I'm not sure and my Garmin was stolen. 

Each day during the summer, there are a few constants...sleep late, COFFEE, swimteam at 10:30 for the younger two, LUNCH for my five, myself and however many crashed at our house the night before. Then yell at everyone to pick up and help me in the house, followed by doing a lot of it myself, since they will not hear me without major YELLING and threatning to turn off the internet!  At a minimum, three loads of laundry a day are necessary unless you want to grow a mountain before your very eyes and directly under your feet in the laundry room!  Then I try to get into my art studio to paint by 1:30 or 2:00.  Sometimes I remember to take something out for dinner.  If I forget, I tell my husband we are having a salad with chicken (he has to have his meat) and then I make chicken nuggets for all the kids.  We can go through a huge bag of chicken nuggets from Sam's in about two to three days.  Last night, my 16 year old son, turned on the deep fryer (yes, in the South, we fry everything) at least 4 times to cook chicken, corndogs, fries, and I don't know what else.  He stays hungry!

I am getting ready to hang my art at a new Fabric Store opening up...the owners invited me to hang my artwork on this huge wall right by the register...I have had so much fun painting.  My current picture is a watercolor of three older women standing waistdeep in the swimming pool...they are all in bright color floral swimsuits and matching bathing caps.  Very humorous...I hope it may tickle someone's fancy and they will have to take it home with them.  I will try to post a photo of it when I finish it... 

Got to figure this computer stuff out!