31 Days of Crafting with my Kids

In an effort to be a better mother and also to stop my husband from nagging at me about us not doing enough with the kids (it's always "us" when he wants me to do stuff...hmmm....weird) I have decided that I am going to do a little experiment. Not anything as extreme as sheep cloning, though I could use a clone of myself. Clone-Me would be responsible for all of the cleaning, cooking and anything else Regular Me doesn't want to do. I won't hold my breath for that but one can dream.


My experiment is to craft with my kids every day in July. I have been pinning things on Pinterest for a couple of weeks and now need to organize it all to figure out what I'm going to do each day. I can pretty much guarantee that my house will be a disaster next month. But that's ok because my husband said "we" would work together to keep the house clean. Oh wait...that means that I will be doing everything I guess. Ok, horribly messy house it is. I'm actually really looking forward to this. I have felt guilty that I don't do enough with the kids. I want to relax after working all day and squeezing in the gym. Who doesn't? But it's not fair to my babies. 


Some of the ideas that I have pinned right now I'm really excited about. I may have to double my anxiety medication to not freak out about the mess but I will take plenty of pictures. Then when my kids decide they need therapy because "Mommy was a freak about messes" I will waltz in and show that Shrink that there was a time when I let the messes slide and played with slime with my kids....once....when they were very little. 


Some of the crafts I am planning on tackling with the kids are going to be a blast. 

I also found a link to "75 things to do with your kids" and one was "Ding Dong Ditch". That should be a fun one to do to my neighbor that despises me. I'm sure she'll find the humor in that. Don't you think? No? Well I will just have to explain that I am crafting with my kids and she can kiss my big.........  Alright, that's probably not the best way to approach that situation. 

My next post will be about my neighbors and their big move.