As a mom, you're never alone...

This year the worst thing I could ever imagine happened. I lost one of my children. Although I don't want to say 'lost'. I would like to think she's still around. Just in a different way. Like in this poem by Henry Scott-Holland: I am but in the other room 'Death is nothing at all. ...

 ... having lots of energy cords. I've been reading the book Energy Strands written by Denise Linn. It got me thinking, and then inspired me to make this picture. I feel live I'm always connected by invisible strands with my children. Even when they're not around. Or may, sometimes especially when they're not around.

Once upon a time there was a little boy, who dreamt of his very own computer tablet. So every day he counted his pennies, and then one day he said: 'I'm only 5 dollars short!' When his opportunistic mommy heard this, she immediately hatched a plan. She went to the little boy and in her...