Inspired Artist

There is an inspired artist living in our house right now. It is fun seeing what the artist is going to draw or color or write or sing next and it seems that inspiration is everywhere for her. The house is full of beautiful drawings and sounds of her singing those cute little lyrics she has come up with.

The inspired artist is Haven. If she is not outside playing she is inside making new pictures. She is also constantly coming up with new songs to sing. I love it, she reminds me so much of Todd, making up songs. Mother's Day morning she came in to wake me with a beautiful song she created for me.

There is however a problem with her inspiration. Her reason for creating beautiful pictures is to make the house pretty and the paper pretty. Her goal in life is to make everything around her "pretty". Sounds like a grand idea, that is until she begins to draw and color the walls.

We have a rule in our house, No coloring or drawing on the walls - paper only. Jadon drew on the wall once, Jude hasn't yet, Haven does so weekly. Maybe not quite that much, but often enough that we might as well buy stock in the paint color of sandstone.

Apart from her disobeying our rule of no coloring or drawing on walls this is a huge problem because we still have our house up for sale. She seems to have no understanding of how important it is to mommy and daddy that we keep the house clean and the walls crayon/marker free. Instead in her head it is her duty to make those walls as pretty as possible and the only way that can happen is if she colors them.

So, now our inspired little artist has lost all privileges to create with either crayon, marker, pen or pencil. She is left with her sweet singing voice and all the ideas in the world of how she can make things prettier.