Orangewillow

Its amazing how much life changes and how different it is from your original hopes and dreams.  Not that its good or bad, just different.  Many of you do not realize whats been going on in my personal life over the past year and now that things are coming to a closure I felt it was time to share.  After my husband and I had our amazing and wonderful little girl the dynamics of our relationship changed.  When she was 9 months old I decided it would be best if we separarted while we figured things out.  The last thing my daughter needed was to see her mom and dad argue.  Though I thought the separation would only last a month it has now been a year.  Chuck and I have gone back and forth about our relationship but confirmed last night we are better off at this point in our lives as friends.  We have both changed and grown so much over the past year that we often can’t find common ground.  One absolute common ground is our daughter though.  We both love her very very much.  She is now 21 months old and a real pistol!  I have full custody of her but Chuck takes her every other weekend to make sure she gets her much needed daddy time in.  We are actually being very civil about the entire thing.  Chuck is being very respectful and agrees the best place for Zoe right now is with her mommy that loves her very much.

Now with that depressing news out of the way I have lost 8 pounds total at the end of my 2nd week of weight watchers.  I feel so good!!!  I have a long way to go but I haven’t cheated at all and every day was easier than the day before.  I just want to be the best mommy I can be for my little Zoebear.

My art is doing very well.  Etsy sales are steady, I have a few consignment deals going on and the gallery is promising.  I haven’t had much time to create since most of my time is spent either working or playing with Zoe but I will try to refocus and get some new work out for my fans.

Thanks to everyone who has been supporting me over this rough year.  I am very excited about new beginings!