Laugh more.

I want to wish you joy in this new year. And I don't mean a little chuckle here and there. I wish you laughter that makes your entire body dance. Everyday of 2013, I hope you fall down laughing like a child does when you hide toys in their clothes, blow hundreds of bubbles in their face, whisper the craziest of secrets in their ear or let a ladybug tickle their cheek. Make 'laugh more' a new year's resolution. 
   

Happy New Year!

Man I partied better as a child on New Year's eve than as an adult! Wow! Happy New Year everyone. I hope you laugh hard and often in 2013.

   

Joy to you. Happy Holidays!

No particular reason.

I'm posting this for no real reason. Just so that you smile at least once today. I know it's been a horrible few days for most of us. My husband took this photo at the playground recently. Our two sons kept going down the slide like this. It made us laugh so hard —  still does.   
    

NEW WORK: I Am Fierce

I've uploaded my completed Lacrosse "I Am Fierce" series as a pdf, if you'd like to take a peek: http://www.kimlowe.com/KIMLOWE_lacrosse.pdf
   

new promo: BUUUBBBBLLLES!

Kim Lowe is a shy 5 year old girl who... YAY! BUUUBBBBBLLLLES! 
    
[ To get a great shot of a kid you have to become that kid. ]
    

25 Days

We're doing our own advent calendar again this year (and when I say "we" I mean crazy "me"). This is our own "25 Days of Christmas" — where under each number is a riddle or rhyme to find a special treat or something special to do relating to the holiday season.
 

Last year's began with 'The Snowman' by Raymond Briggs that Santa left: "Under your pillow you should look. Santa left you a special book." The second day was to pick out a xmas tree. I won't bore you with the entire 25 but a couple more were things like "Donate toys to other little boys." And we donated unused toys to Cradles to Crayons. "For the birds make, a nutty suet cake." I left everything out on the table to make a suet cake which we hung outside afterward. And "Cookies you will bake. A smile you will make." The gift found in their stockings for that morning were chef hats and after baking cookies we brought them to a local elderly home. You get the idea.
   

Now I'm well aware these aren't genius rhymes people. It's for my 3 and 5 year olds, who really think that Santa's in cahoots with Frosty and Rudolph and they're all leaving them special messages every morning. They're not going to believe in magic for very long so I'm playing into it now while I can.

    

Uh-Oh Holidays

The holidays are here. I can no longer deny it. I need to start concepting this year's holiday card. Here's last year's—gotta love cardboard boxes!

Good morning.

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