A N D I E

Step 1: Hear a flight of swallows outside your window while cleaning
Step 2: Look out the window and see them fly across the rainy sky
Step 3: Try to continue cleaning even though you can't stop thinking about the scene in your head and its driving you crazy.
Step 4: Forget about cleaning and grab the biggest canvas you have and outline some swallows flying
Step 5: Decide what color looks like rain and paint it.
Step 6: Fill in the birds and hang it above a chair.
Step 7: Stand there for a while looking at the painting above the chair and think.
Step 8: Decide that it is not right yet and you need to paint more
Step 9: As your painting remember in the NICK OF TIME that it's time to pick kids up from school.
Step 10: Make the kids an afternoon snack in between hugs and kisses and stories about who did what to whom on the playground.
Step 11: Start painting again and forget to make dinner
Step 10: Stop painting 5 minutes before your husband gets home and make Tacos. It's fast and it's your standby.
Step 11: Kiss your husband, show him your painting and ask his opinion.
Step 12: Agree about his opinion and remember to fix it later, maybe after dinner.
Step 13: Spend the rest of the evening with your lovely family.
Step 14: Lay there in bed thinking about the painting while the rest of your household is asleep.
Step 15: Slip out of bed, brew some coffee and paint till morning and it's finished.