Notes on the daily works of art...

Several people has asked me recently how our children manage to consistently produce the artwork shown in Jayne's daily works of art and I've had to explain that, in fact, the "daily" part is the new post, not the production of the artwork. Put more clearly, we are going through a backlog of pieces that are children have produced over the years. I make this clear to avoid two possible misconceptions:

1) That something Ceily drew two years ago is a recent production. This may lead to the perception of serious development delays in my children and we are intent on hiding all such evidence.

2) That we have an art room sweatshop where we force our children to draw/paint/paste until we release them. This isn't true. That's called school and we only make them go to that 10 months out of the year.

Jayne actually has a hard time throwing anything away (given that everything our children create is a work of art) and this is one way of justifying the hoarding. A huge plastic container sits in her closet holding 11 years of art. She has yet to "publish" any of that horde. First she'll use up her stash from under the living room couch. This is Jayne- I am not a horder. I just keep the important stuff.