{ This moment } – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see. Inspired by SouleMama.
Family, Faith, Food and Fabric 
Oh, art from you this week as well! Very colourful. Have a nice weekend!
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Yes, first drawing that doesn’t consist of repeatedly STABBING the paper to death! I was pretty excited. 🙂
Have a wonderful week-end as well.
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Love this 🙂
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So free… I wish I remembered the time when I drew without thinking. Even now at 4, my daughter is so “aware” of her drawings.
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You have a budding artist!
It’s 15*F this morning. It won’t be long before ice covers the stream.
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I hope so… Our daughter is SOOO artistic. I just hope he enjoys it. But I have a feeling he will be a builder more than a painter. Only time will tell! 🙂
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Very nice artwork! I have boxes of similar works of art. 🙂
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Ah yes, we’ve gotten more and more selective with time with our daughter or else we would need a storage locker. LOL! But this will definitely be a keeper. 🙂
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I love your display system for it – I’m sure he’s very proud of his great work!
Here’s my moment, a little peek into my mail pile (and maybe my personality?). I do love vintage athletics images, especially from my alma mater! http://www.notintentonarriving.com/2014/11/this-moment.html
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I don’t think he’s quite realized that it is art, but he does try to climb on the table to grab it… most likely to eat it. LOL!
On my way to your moment now. Have a wonderful week-end!
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Those first drawings are so fun!
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They truly are! 🙂
Have a beautiful week-end xo
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Oh my gosh. Is your little boy’s name Boen? My toddler’s name is Goen, pronounced like “go in.” How is his name pronounced? It would be so funny if they rhymed. 🙂
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LOL! Ours is pronounced like Bowen, without the H. Almost. I’ve never heard of Goen before. Where does the name come from?
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Goen is a Yiddish word that means “brilliant man.” I’m a linguist, so it took a long time to find the perfect name. Seven weeks after he was born, in fact. Boen’s story is beautiful. I love all the meanings and stories infused in names. It is the only thing we are guaranteed to keep for our whole life. It’s important to make it special.
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I 100% agree… Goen’s meaning is beautiful as well. 🙂
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Children’s art is the best! Have a great weekend!
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I love it… it’s all over our house. I put up the clothes line to free the fridge and the fridge is STILL full. LOL!
Have a wonderful week-end as well!
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Aww. I love toddler art ❤ . Well done Pumpkin. Have a good weekend.
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Mama was pretty proud. Moments when he sits still long enough to put anything down on paper are so few and far between. I couldn’t help but smile.
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We know the stabbing the page picture well. I have several copies archived 😉 Boen is so beautiful! What does it mean?
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Thank you… Boen was a little boy I met in South Africa 20 years ago. He was 10 years old, spoke 4 different language and helped his mom create a soup kitchen for his school in a very poor township around Cape Town. He wanted to be a teacher or a doctor because he wanted to help people. He inspired me so much, he was the first kid I met that made me WANT kids… So I always said if I had a little boy, I would name him after him.
I searched for the meaning and I could only find references to the German family name. Makes sense that it made it’s way to South Africa. In Norway, it is used to designate a farm or meadow. Many sites seem to say it’s just a different spelling of the traditional celtic, it means son of Owen.
So I will keep my meaning of the little boy that inspired me to one day become a mother. I often wonder where he is today. 🙂
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So beautiful! I spend a few days in Cape Town while traveling the globe on a boat in college. Such a beautiful and troubled place. I ate at a little restaurant in a township that was run by one woman out of her own house–her living room filled up with tables and chairs of all assortment. Some of the most delicious food I have eaten. Of the many places I have been, Cape Town holds a special place in my heart–I think because of the interesting juxtaposition of so many different and amazing people. I often thought I might live there one day. But, life often has other plans!
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You got to be kidding me, you did Semester at Sea??? How do you think I went to South Africa… which semester were you? I was Spring of 95!!!!
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No way! I must be a bit younger than you, I sailed in Fall 04, and graduated Spring 05. One of the most amazing experiences of my life, of course, aside from my wedding day and holding my children in my arms for the first time!
I think this blogger friendship is fate 🙂 So glad to have met you!
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I agree, mean to be… Such an amazing experience! And yes, I just turned 40. 🙂
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Yay for beautiful first art – its so lovely and free and expressive – definitely one to treasure!
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I was just commenting about that earlier. I wish I could remember drawing so freely… All memories I have of art seem to have direction and a kind of focus. To just move and create, how amazing!
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I heard about a book called “make it mighty ugly” by Kim Werker that is about finding and reclaiming that freedom of creation. I requested it from my library and I’m super excited to read it. It’s unfortunate that we lose that freedom as we grow and are influenced by those around us. I hope I can relearn little of it from this book.
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That sounds like an amazing book. I may have to invest… I’m sure both my husband and I would get something from that. My husband is an artist and lately, he’s been getting less inspired because, and I quote, he gets “too much in his own head about it”. There is one I have on my wish list called : The Drawing Mind: Silence Your Inner Critic And Release Your Creative Spirit. I really hope to get it someday. 🙂
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Art, art! Art everywhere this week! Found you on Shel’s blog. Here’s my kid art moment!
http://thisonegoodlife.blogspot.com/2014/11/this-moment_21.html
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Welcome! Thank you for stopping by… kid art is just the best. So free and liberated! On my way to your moment now. Have a great week-end!
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First art work is very special. And could be a sign of things to come here, maybe the days of dive bombing off the dining room chairs are soon to switch to sitting on them drawing for hours on end! Here’s hoping for you!
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Oh my, wouldn’t that be LOVELY! LOL!
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I love little people art. And that is a fun way to display it. Have a wonderful weekend.
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Thank you! Hope your week-end was amazing as well!
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I so love it!! Those first drawings are so special. I think I still have my oldest son’s drawings that looked very similar and he’s 22!! : ) I hope you’re having a beautiful weekend!! xo
~ Wendy
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Oh how fun would it be to give that to him as a present when he has child of his own… Frame to put in the baby,s room. 🙂
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Lovely! We have an art clothesline as well.
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They are the best! Frees up the fridge… a little… LOL!
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Loving the art!!
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Thank you… my son’s bursts of art are few and far between… we tend to make a big deal of the little ones he has. 🙂
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