I am so done with meal times! I nearly lost my mind last night trying to get dinner ready. My husband is easy to please. It is those darn youngsters that are driving me batty. I swore long ago I would never become the short order cook. You know those parents that are making three different meals all in an attempt to please the entire family. Nope not gonna do it. Some nights if I am making something for us that I know the kids hate, I will make a little something extra for them. All in all though we all eat the same things. We also seem to go through picky spurts. I think we are heading towards a picky time. The horrible part of it is the "parrot syndrome" that we have going on right now. When Evan says he doesn't like something, then Taylor makes the same announcement. Arrrggghhh.
I am so hoping we will soon enter the "Jetson Family" era. Where all our meals are in capsule form. Think about how fabulous that would be? But for now I guess there is nothing to do but soldier on. Armed with patience in one hand and Flintstone vitamins in the other.
Now a break for the weather...it is downright Spring like. That makes me so happy. I watched the kids play on the playground after school and I was warm. Gotta love that.
On the search for a bag of black buttons. You would think this wouldn't be a difficult thing to find. Buttons. in black. all one size or various sizes. Nope can't find them. I can find an asst. of coloured buttons. I will persevere and I haven't hit the Dollar Stores yet or the Fabric stores. It seems like the more basic the item, the more difficult it is to find.
Inspiration can be found in the strangest of places. Yesterday, I spent close to an hour at my son's Kindergarten Open House. During this time he showed me all of his artwork, math work and printing practice pages. I was given a tour of the room and he even read me the class story. Then we hit the class bathroom. Not just any bathroom. A lot of learning happens in this bathroom. His Teacher has filled the walls with posters. Alphabet practice, numbers,etc. It inspired me to create a learning tool for the kids bathroom at home. I have been looking for a picture for their bathroom and just can't find anything. Then I thought of all of the patterned paper I have at home and the die cuts we have at work. I think I am going to die cut the alphabet from my patterned paper and make a fun piece of artwork for our bathroom. What a great idea to give them something educational to stare at in the bathroom. The one place where they are a captive audience (sort of).
It is Friday and I am looking forward to the weekend. No real plans but maybe we can find something to keep us busy. It is Spring break next week and I know I am looking forward to no school.
Hope your weekend is a good one.