31 Days of Crafting: Semi-Fail

Week 1 went very well I think. Then it all started to go downhill. I guess I'm saying that because I didn't follow the "plan" to the T. I won't say I have a fear of commitment but rather a lack of follow through. I had very good intentions and all in all I would have to say that I was successful since my ultimate goal was just to spend more time with my kids.  I have let them cook with me several times. Lots of egg cracking followed by a lot of picking out egg shells. But that's to be expected. They got the hang of it pretty quickly I guess. My kids were super excited to help me cook and that really showed me that it doesn't matter what I'm doing with them as long as it's quality time. QUALITY not QUANTITY! 

I just have to remember to keep working on it. It's so easy to come home and just want to lay around after working all day. And lately I've been hitting the gym so I can look like this: 

Oops wrong picture!! More like this:

So with all the working and working out that leaves less time at home. But I am still making an effort to let the kids help me more and not try to do anything myself. I'm sure that has nothing to do with my anal personality (I can hear my mother laughing now). I also bought the kids some school workbooks so they can work on their education. Since they are 4 years old we're way behind on them being the next Sheldon Coopers of the world. No kids of mine are going to take 4 years to finish high school!! They will be in med school by the time they are 14 like Doogie Howser. 

Seriously though I am not that crazy. If they are brilliant enough to do that then great, I'm just hoping they are smart enough to put money away for me to stay in the top of the line nursing home where I can scream obscenities at random strangers and get away with it. One of the things that we did was take cards to a senior living facility and one of the residents just randomly started cursing. Not at anyone just saying words. Random but true. Sometimes that old people are just plain crazy. 

So although July was a flop in the sense that I barely did any of the things on the list I did make a much bigger effort to spend quality time with my kiddos and I think we all had a fun month. In that sense I believe it was a success.