RanmaCMH

This last year and a half really knocked me out of my art game.  Sometimes life gets richer and more complicated in good ways, but it doesn't mean they're not challenging too.  I'm trying to adapt to a life where a lot of the time I used to have is being parceled out differently.  There's also the emotional ups and downs of having a new baby... again!  (For anyone who has been following me for a while... bless your patience.... that's three now). All that to say, art took a backseat and parenting and house ownership and gardening filled up it's space. I'm trying to push myself a little extra hard to start making art again. I have to think about projects differently and organize my time (which is not and never has been my strong suit) It's not an easy thing to get through any task without needing to stop several times for this or that. Of course, now that I'm finally making time to draw again there are huge gopher holes in my yard. Really? So I suppose I just wanted to say

Well hello!  Has it been about six months since my last update?  I think so, because that's how pregnant I am right now.   Yup, we're expecting another little girl around the beginning of June, and I currently feel like I am carrying a small planet around and not a tiny baby.  I also look like that.  We're very excited over here, but let me tell you, the first trimester was ROUGH.  Like, constant nausea for weeks rough.  The kind where you don't want to do anything but sleep until it's over?  So naturally all drawing projects came to a screeching halt while I wussed out on the couch in the fetal position.  Once I finally got my energy back I