i usually like mondays .... usually ... not always

i am an unusually lucky mom with unusually healthy kids .... with three children and a total of more than 30 years between them (11, 11 and 7+) .... they have had one ear infection between them .... and i don't even know whose ear it was .... it was an infant twin thing .... and well ... it was one of them ..... they've had some stitches .... and an infant with a scary high fever ... but in general, they hardly are sick, hardly miss school, and have about the thinnest files at the doctor's office ..... that said? i have had a sicky....going on her fourth day of fever ... and i'm thanking my lucky stars that sickness is a few and far between sort of event ..... 

was that too long an excuse for not painting much today .... and really ... it is just an excuse .... but, i did finish this nest painting today .... you can read about it here on flickr ......

and then there's this next one .... it's tricky .... any time i EVER ask YOU (all of you, sweet readers) for advice, i overwhelmingly DON"T follow it ... cause when i ask? i don't really want advice ... it's more that i'm dithering out loud .... or in print .... 

so ... here's the trick .... i believe i need more on the background ... some letters (dark yellow... pale yellow? umber? blue to play off a scrabble box? ) or some texture ... or something .... 

but?.... but i like it like this ... ha .... i know i want to do more ... but i worry i'll pick the wr0ng thing .... so .... i am showing it to you before i wreck it....ok? 
it's big, as you can tell from the microscopicness of the scrabble board .... it is three feet square .... and looking at it again, it does NEED something more .. that yellow just looks like a frame, not like part of the artistic statement ..... 

so maybe it needs squares to echo the scrabble squares ... or maybe it needs pear sketches, stamps or stencils ..... or letters ... i do love letters ..... 

these are the things i dither about ... is it frightening to have a wee glimpse into my over thinking brain? 

i have another pear secret .... i'll tell it to you later ... ok?