Dad, Tell Me About the Time (46)

 Monday, November 18, 2024

Can you draw or just doodle? Use these pages to sketch something you’ve learned to draw.

I love to doodle and to draw. I’m not very good but I enjoy it. I used to do it much more often than I do now but that is probably because I have very little spare time anymore. Rather than doodle something here I will just share a couple of paintings I did not long after we were married.

                                  

I know my life is crazy busy but I need to just make some time to start painting again. I know it isn’t that great but I enjoy it and my kids will have to tell me they like it. Maybe they will even put some on their walls. 

Together we make a FAMILY.

A Family of my own

Kira Anne Leavitt               September 2, 1982  Edmonton, AB

Brandon James Leavitt       June 2, 1984            Brooks, AB

Benjamin Scott Leavitt       February 25, 1986   Brooks, AB

Alycia Grayce Leavitt         February 3, 1989     Brooks, AB

Alexander Thomas Leavitt March 12, 1991       Brooks, AB

Sarah Christine Leavitt       August 24, 1993      Poway, CA

What is the best thing about raising a child?

The best thing about raising a child is that you always have an automatic friend. I know parents aren’t supposed to be “friends” with their kids and that is true when it comes to discipline etc. but you can still have rules and obedience with your kids as well as be their friends.

For me, I love little babies and because they are so sweet and loving, it is easy to over look the diapers and crying etc.

When they get to about two years old, they are old enough to get into everything but they are too young for you to really communicate rules etc. I would be happy to give me kids away when they turn two and take them back when they are four.

From four on every year older they get the more fun they are. Once they get to eight or nine you can start having philosophical discussions with them and as teenagers you can solve the worlds problems. I love my kids and I especially loved them as teenagers right up until they left for college.

Sending your kids off into the world to fend for themselves may be the hardest part of having children. Driving away from their apartments after having helped them get all setup is a bag of very mixed emotions. After all, this is what you raised them for. We had done all we could to prepare them for the world and while it is enormously exciting (and fulfilling) to see them spread their wings and fly, it is so sad to know that from now on they will not be a daily part of your life.