Have I told you about how daughters in the family are trained from a young age to wrap their fathers around their little fingers, shower their love and affection upon them and then have them listen to everything they say? If you haven’t, you should probably talk to my father or my husband.
Our daughter picked on early. She snuggled up to her father one day when he was full to the brim and was lying around after a pint of ice-cream and asked him whether she can decorate the walls in her room with her own drawings. “I want to draw an ice-cream cone also!” she said. The father melted and said “Sure!”
A friend of ours heard all about the permission to paint her own walls and got her a set of Washable Markers. I tried braking the process – jammed on the brakes, but to no avail. Before I knew it, our Lady Picasso had unleashed her imagination.
I am not frightfully fond of wall creativity and was paranoid about this bit of indulgence from the husband. I tried to tell her to plan what she wanted to draw on a piece of paper first and then transfer the drawings to the wall, but the husband said I must trust her judgment and let her do whatever she wants on her room walls. So, I bit down a number of worries, and tried calming myself with antacids: you know – be the cool mom.
This is the result:
Here is the ice-cream cone:
And there is the overfed unicorn :
It was at this point in time when I idly checked the carton that the markers came in. The blasted thing pulled the rug from underneath me. Apparently, they were safe to use on clothing, but not on walls. *Duh*
But I am glad we let her do this. Her friends walk into her room and swoon, “Cool! you mean, your parents really let you do this?”
She says, “Yeah!” in that cool tone of hers, but under her cool exterior, I can detect pride. For that, it is worth it.
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Hey Saumya, wonderful to see you are still writing … This one is funny and your daughter is some artist for sure … 🙂 I guess I’ll keep my eyes on your blog now on …
Hey Archana – long time no hear. Welcome back. Yes. I am still writing 🙂 How are you doing?
what’s a bit of extra color on the walls!! I love the overfed unicorn!! 😀
Ha! No one can come to my house and complain about food what?!
i appreciate the creativity of krits…she should have framed a story also out of these wall pics…awaiting krits’s story…
That is a wonderful idea Amuds. I will ask her to write a story linking all the pictures together,
OK… To my credit, I drew the sun and the lamp post for the balloons. And, I was there to see you cringe on finding about the markers…. Ha! Priceless!!! I am seeing three walls here. Eager to see the fourth one.. LOL
🙂 The unicorn wall murals are coming to camouflage right?
Super. The walls look pretty and they are “unique”ornian!! Sometimes it’s good not to say “no”!
Hee hee – I didn’t have the heart frankly. So, I thought why not? Worst case, we will paint a wall
Cool….reminds me of randy pausch who encourages parents to let their children draw and paint on walls….
Ripple effect of Randy pausch is definitely there. We like his lecture a lot.
Kavitha : Yes, we love the lectures by Randy Pausch…