One of the most therapeutic {and messy} things we all do as moms with our kids is craft.  Now, I'm not talking your run-of-the-mill Saturday night scrapfest or knit-a-thon, but your everyday craft "projects" {as my kids call them} that are complete with glue and paint and other random stuff you've managed to salvage over time that kids now deem as craft-worthy.

Although I'm not a spur-of-the-moment  crafty person, I do enjoy making things.  I do NOT enjoy making a mess.  That has, of course, gone out the window though with two kids who don't understand that a dab of glue is not a puddle.  I like to plan my crafts out and make sure we have the necessary materials, accessories, etc., and prefer not to just wing it. That's the Type A in me but my kids have adapted well thus far. 

A couple of weeks ago we picked up a very cool {and very old} kids craft book at the library after N saw it referenced during an episode of Reading Rainbow.  Since then he's asked incessantly to make something from the book.  So this week I indulged him.  There was this one project in the book that he was just dying to make – egg faces.  I told him it was more of an Easter craft but he still wanted to do it.  Fine, I decided, but we were not going to use real eggs – too wasteful.  So I went digging around in the basement through our Easter decor bin and found our plastic eggs from last year {I also found the ones still in their packages I bought on clearance after Easter at PBK, but there was NO WAY I was going to use those!}. 

The craft was fun and afterwards the kids had a puppet show with their newly crafted egg faces.  So today I am thankful for kids who love to craft and the fact that I get to experience the wonderment, fun, and messiness of crafting, through their eyes.  I'm grateful that as their mom I am able to spend so much enjoyable time with them making things.  ♥