Once in a while I do let the kids pick items to create with but it’s not as fun as going through my mama’s stash with wild abandon but I’m sure this will change once their tiny arms gain strength! For now Nina is already beginning to amass a stockpile of her own! For this project we again found some inspiration and have fallen in love with tassels (here is a great tutorial) then we just cracked open the jewelry and paint supply suitcases! We each picked our colors and painted our big wooden beads.Īs a mother you expect to bond instantly with each of your children. These days I have my own mama stash, for now it’s carefully organized and secured in a stack of several very heavy vintage suitcases. I’d catch it later from her every time because I had definitely mixed all of her carefully organized drawers up, spilled beads everywhere, took every lid off each tote and unknowingly (or maybe knowingly) stolen the good scissors. Growing up my mama had a plethora of craft supplies, I remember going through her stash and finding bits and bobs to create with. So here is to finding our mission again, learning to walk along side the cloud instead of staying lost in it’s haze. Many times it’s crossed my mind but until now it never got off the paper. This post flowed onto paper with ease… I went back to sleep. To be honest sometime within the last year I woke one night late, got up and felt an overwhelming urge to write for us. Sure in that time we’ve been involved in girl scouts, shes’s bounced from gymnastics to cheer and now climbing but I can’t help but wonder where our hearts would be had we not let our blog get lost in the cloud. It’s hard not to feel major mom guilt for dropping the ball here. We started this project for a purpose, shes asked several times when we are going to do another post. Life has been ebbing and flowing along as it should but still, really…our last post was just a week shy of TWO YEARS AGO. Any family with a child or children able to explore their many interests and going after their joy in life feels this cloud at times. An unintentional and hectic denseness of can’t miss this, gotta be there pressure. A cloud filled with life’s busy, hurry, adventure and opportunities. Sometimes I notice that there is a cloud surrounding us. I will say this is the first room reboot with absolutely no fighting, no arguing and lots of laughing. Here’s to hoping our list helps her stay on top of things and if they get a little out of sorts she has actionable directions to reel it back in. At a certain point I do start secretly hoping that natural consequences intervene and she steps on a barbie shoe.Īlas it gets to a point where her entire mood is heavy and angsty and RaThis time my suggestion to make a list (free printable) and write a blog post about it was enough motivation for her to jump on board with the task. Okay, so maybe I notice and maybe knee deep is an exaggeration BUT with her strong spirit at the end of the day I pick and choose my battles so long as she’s safe…mostly. Weeks and months go by and then I realize we are wading knee deep to reach her bed at night. Here we go again… This is an ongoing cycle with the girl. The ten step process…you too can achieve this splendor!
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