{"id":2086,"date":"2007-10-16T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/painting-crackers\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T02:51:00","slug":"painting-crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/painting-crackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Crackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days before Will was born, I finished a painting that now hangs in the kids’ room above Kate’s crib.
\"\"<\/a>I was really into making “birth art” during my first pregnancy and this painting was suppose to be a series of two pieces — the second one never got started because Will came early — inspired a bit by Pieta<\/a>-ish motherly love and based on the work of the whimsical artist, Nancy Thomas<\/a>. (Whom I never should have googled to find a weblink. Oye! Those plaques! So great!)
\"\"<\/a>This piece is still my most favorite painting. When I look at it, I think of how I felt painting it… I remember my picturing myself holding my little baby and felt great anticipation for how that moment would feel. In short, it is a very sentimental and important thing to me.<\/p>\n

So you can imagine how I felt when Will told me that Kate calls the painting “MaMa.” Sure enough, she toddles back, points up her little finger and says “MaMa” right to the painting.<\/p>\n

It is important that she induces these moments of unbelievable, unimaginable heart-swelling joy. Particularly because there are other moments, like when Mommy has to do something important. Like blink. And this <\/span>happens:
\"\"<\/a>Do you see the mini-rice cakes — each with one bite out of them — spread all over the floor? The water can? It’s out there as a crushing device. And to push crackers under the ice maker.\"\"<\/a>Sticky rice cakes on her butt. Crazy Kate.
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