This was exactly the kind of week I wrote about in my post on resolutions — my youngest had an emergency appendectomy on Monday throwing our lives into a swirl of stress and chaos. Luckily we caught it in time and he is already up and about and chipper as can be. I am incredibly grateful to our Peds practice that caught it and sent him to the ER.
Last year I would have not even bothered trying to do any art this week, writing off the whole week as a loss. Instead I grabbed my sketchpad and a sharpie and did a little doodling while I sat next to him and we watched TV together. It felt good to do a little something arty and he has fun making requests: