My Friends Are Crazy, My Children Are Goats and This Happened

I've written before about the connections I have made with other bloggers online. About how some of the people who understand me the best live inside my computer and I've never actually met them in real life.

I was chatting with one of those people a while back, Lillian from It's a Dome Life. Our conversations always have a way of meandering.

Yeah. That's a word for it.

Meandering.

We talk about everything from the most practical to the most outlandish. We discuss blogging platforms and fan reach and creative ideas. We talk about making pants for squirrels, then red satin lined capes.

No, I'm not kidding.

Anyhow, I was chatting with her a while back and somehow we got onto the topic of kids eating paper. (seriously, don't ask how we got onto the topic, because I honestly can't remember...but that's how our discussions go).

I told her my kids were goats.

Not literally, of course. They are human children, not goat kids.

They all, however, went through goat-like phases where they ate paper. They ripped apart books and magazines and it.all.went.in.their.mouths.

Like goats.

I had forgotten about that stage until my brother brought my niece to the house, and she was firmly in goat stage.

Lilly laughed because somehow Tiny Small must not have gone through goat phase, and the mere suggestion that my kids are goats gave her an idea.

I love when Lilly gets crazy ideas from me, because they turn into something awesome.

She made this.


Didn't I tell you that Lilly is an amazing artist???

She is.

Her collage work is nothing short of stupendousness. (yes, that's a word. I just made it up.)

She painted the backgrounds, found goats (where she found so many goats, I am not sure), then made my kids into the kids I said they were.

I'm the queen bee at the top, logically.

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.

Her talent is beyond anything I could comprehend. I can barely draw stick figures, and she inspires me with every piece she creates. The fact that she made this FOR ME makes me want to cry and laugh and hop in my car and drive to her house and hug her.

I hosted a guest post of hers a while back, and you can find it here. Included in that are several of her watercolor pieces.

She is one of the kindest, most talented people I know. You should go check her out, I'm sure that you will love her as much as I do. AND she wears tutus.

Her Blog.

Her Facebook Page.

Her etsy shop.