I've known this my whole life!!!

Coloring is the best! I loved to color when I was a little girl, just ask my mom. And I never got over it! When I got older, I drew pictures on the walls! BIG ones. Then they came out with those Doodle Art posters and I had to have them all. Do you remember these? They used to come in yellow cardboard tubes.

I always bought my own markers though. I could never have enough markers!

Then they invented gel pens and EVERYTHING changed!!!! I love gel pens. No, I LOVE gel pens. I have 100's of them! I'm not exaggerating either. During 9/11, I doodled on graph paper. Sheets and sheets of it. I couldn't turn the TV off but I couldn't watch it either. So I would lay on the bed and listen to the TV and doodle...for hours and hours and hours. I didn't know it at the time, but apparently it was very cathartic for me and I actually needed to do it. 

Anyway, I found these AWESOME articles about coloring and I'm sooooo happy about it. Validation!!  One article says that 6 of the top 20 best selling books on Amazon are coloring books. One of them, The Secret Garden, I bought last year. And I just ordered a couple more - Christmas coloring books! It's the little things people :-) I have a couple dozen coloring books, easily.

Another one these articles says coloring is as good for your brain as meditation. I knew that. I just didn't know I knew that. Yep. I love to color. If you haven't done it in awhile, you should give it a try.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coloring-benefits-meditation_55b7c9c1e4b0074ba5a6724f

http://mandalacoloringmeditation.com/mandala-coloring/mandala-articles/about-mandala-coloring-healing/

http://nautil.us/blog/is-coloring-within-the-lines-the-new-meditation

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/17/coloring-books-adults-therapists-opinions

And here is a link to Amazon so you can see what I'm talking about;

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_5?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=adult+coloring+books&sprefix=adult%2Caps%2C320