Niccolo is spending a long weekend with his grandparents. Funny how, although my husband and I were really looking forward to a few days’ freedom—time to work, create, talk, read and even (wild!) watch a film or two—we are already missing him sorely. We have been reminiscing at length about how he does this or says that—and he has barely left.

So it was only logical, in this nostalgic state, that I’d feel the urge to record the good times we had together at Easter. I put together a little mosaic of the egg hunt on Easter Sunday (the highlight of which was dissolving in water a special baking soda egg that had a toy inside) and our trip to an amusement park on Monday.

Niccolo’s Easter of fun

I’d like his life to be always this full of experiences. I can’t put it any better than Konstantin Kavafis did in Ithaca, which we read at Nicco’s christening and which I used as journal entry in this mosaic:

Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches

Incidentally, this piece also doubles up as my entry for the Created by Hand challenge, which was all about using rubber stamps to create a background for any piece of work. I used Komodo’s Bamboo Lake and Welcome Back stamps here, which I stamped randomly on a deep tan paper. That said, I suspect only the Niccolo enthusiasts out there can appreciate it, but I had a lot of fun putting it together (and it eased the nostalgia a bit).