This past Saturday marked the 1 year anniversary of this little ol’ blog called Motherhood Is An Art.
I do believe that calls for a woot! woot! and some appreciation to everyone who reads and follows me. I am very sincere when I say that I am very thankful to people who stop on by and take their time to read. I have met some of thee coolest people through blogging.
To show my appreciation I am not only sharing a recent children’s book I wrote for my children (based off an event that actually happened that I greatly exaggerated) but I am also giving a copy away to one lucky reader! All you have to do to be entered to win is leave a comment at the bottom of the page indicating that you would like a copy. The other option is to leave a comment on my Facebook page which you can join by clicking on the Facebook “like” button on the right hand side of the page! In one week I will announce the winner!
Without further ado….here is the book I wrote and illustrated:
A mom and her three kids were driving in their van one bright, sunny day. They had the windows rolled down and were singing along to their favorite songs on the radio.
All of a sudden, Mom heard a low grunting noise coming from the back seat. The noise grew into louder growls and roars. The mom found herself slightly panicked that her three children had been replaced by lions…
or bears…
or wart hogs.
After a quick check in the rearview mirror the mystery was solved when she discovered that the two older children were bickering and arguing at an escalating volume. She turned down the radio and that is when the girl exclaimed, “Brother is emptying my bucket!”
The mom quickly fired back in a panicked tone, “What bucket? Who brought a bucket in the van? What was in the bucket?”
Mom knew how much her kids loved to put stuff in buckets. She began to imagine hundreds of worms being spilled into the van…
or possibly hundreds of roly-poly bugs…
or a bucket full of ants.
Would they have brought a bucket of water in the van…
or gooey mud and leaves?
After trying to steal glances over her shoulder and not seeing anything; the mom asked again about the contents of the bucket that the brother emptied.
The girl explained that in her Life Skills class at school, her teacher told them we all have an imaginary bucket inside of us. When someone does or says something mean to us; it empties our bucket.
The girl said her bucket was getting emptied when her brother told her that she had dragon breath.
The mom immediately told her son to apologize to his big sister. He also had to come up with one compliment to help fill her “bucket” back up.
He told his sister he was sorry and then he told her she was as cool as a two-headed frog. In other words he thought his sister was pretty awesome!
Motherhood Is An Art 