Right Here Right Now

A lovely day with the girls today, we went to Manchester Art Gallery for their Family Art Club. It was an absolutely brilliant two hours.

We heard from a lecturer in Sound who told us all about Aeolian Harps and Evie volunteered to operate a fan to replicate the harp in the gallery. I was very proud of her.

Then, the fun bit...we got to make an acoustic tonoscope (a device that lets you create patterns with the sound of your voice) it was ace...blowing grains into patterns via a quite complicated blowey thing!

We drew the patterns and cut them out then the girls lay on the floor of the gallery as their pictures blew in the wind and hung from the balcony...it was fab, they both then wrote some poems about how they felt lying there looking up at their art.

How wonderful that the girls and I can experience such fantastic workshop in a beautiful, creative setting where we learnt lots of interesting things from professionals...free of charge!

I have lots of photos of the girls, red in the face making patterns with their tonoscopes.

But, was feeling a bit blue doing the whole lone parent thing in the Gallery. We went into the interactive children's gallery first and sometimes I find it a bit overwhelming seeing lots of happy mum's and dad's with their children.

I'd also just got an email from my ex asking what possessions I wanted from the family home - it's been a tough week for a lot of reasons and it's just another added pressure.

It's all going legal now as apparently our decision for me to work part time to look after our girls was now MY 'lifestyle choice' and ex says I am therefore not entitled to half the equity in the house. Despite always working and paying the deposit for the mortgage. So, looks like Court is the next step. Which makes me really sad.

Do people change? Or do we just ignore their bad points when we are with them?.....

This time a year ago the ex and I were on a romantic break in a yurt in a field (I'd booked it as a surprise...as he told me he was so stressed in work - found out eventually it wasn't stress but the new office bint that was distracting him!)

So at the gallery, I was feeling a teeny bit blue.

One of the installations was a lots of suitcases and the idea is that you pick up a label and write on where you would like to be. Evie wrote hers out so well.

"I wish I was in Japan" [Home of Pokemon Dear Readers]

And when she went to stick her label on the exhibit - I spotted this one!

A simple coincidence, I know. But I cannot tell you how much it cheered me up and made me realise that I am on the right path. The journey may be difficult at times but I'm heading the right way and making the right choices.

I hope you are too.
Kx