When planning for this year, my goal was to create an art project for each month. I thought this would avoid the falling off the wagon I do each June/July. I thought giving myself a chance to reset every month would keep me more on top of things and it would allow me to experience a variety of art throughout they year.

I am excited to say I was totally right.

My year-long project of sketching and journaling my “choose” has gone defunct in a few months but my daily art for each month is thriving. I’m done all the way up to October. Considering the fact that I will do December Daily in December, I feel good about my chances of finding something for October and November. And even if I were to skip those two, that means I will have done 2,000 pieces of art in 2016. How awesome is that?

As I sit to plan my 2017 plans, I am hoping to learn from this lesson. Life is all about learning what works for me and making it work for me 🙂

Stories from 2016 is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.

As a culmination of their Social Studies work, David’s school has a tradition that the 5th grade class puts on a Colonial Play. Each of the kids gets to pick a character and then they  write 1-2 scenes with that character. All the scenes are then sent to a company which weaves them into a play. They then come to the school with costumes, props and the kids put the play on for the parents.

This means the play is different each time since the kids are writing the scenes. Pretty awesome, no?

David was Patrick Henry this year. (His first choice was Nathan Hale.) I will admit I knew pretty much nothing about him but I still loved watching the play.

I love how much my physics-loving kid loves History. I love how he already knows so much more than I do. I love love love everything this child adds to my life.

Thank you, David.

Stories from 2016 is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.