of course....since i shouted to the world how much i loooooove being a mom...
my kids gave me the hardest day they have in a long time.
crying.
no dessert.
drive me nuts kind of day.
starting immediately at 6:50 AM with a full blown temper tantrum about a shower ending with tears at dinner.
it's like they knew i had written that yesterday and they wanted me to prove that i love it.
i proved it by giving myself a time-out.
after a frustrating dinner that took me 45 minutes to make never leaving the stove top....
which was met with tears and complaining to no end....i cleared my plate and took a super long hot bath.
daddy put them to bed.
and i watched Oprah's Favorite Things on dvr.
and you know...after watching that show how could anyone be unhappy?
everyone is so excited and crying and hugging.
i made it through another day.
and i still love being a mom.
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ok....it's turkey time.
this craft was really fun.
the first part was nice...we went for a walk and filled a grocery bag with colorful leaves.
then we turned the leaves in to turkey feathers.
we started with large circles cut from cardboard.
i just took stuff out of our recycle box and traced around a plate.
you can also use paper plates....but i wanted them to be bigger than that.
i covered annie's with glue.
talby used the glue gun.
we covered the circle completely with leaves.
it was so pretty watching them.
the glue was being used generously.
we had to cut the stems off with scissors because when they tried to break them off with their hands
the leaves would rip.
and i admit that about now in this project a fight broke out about....glue? markers? who knows.
but i yelled "NO. we are NOT doing this! GET CRAFTING NOW!"
because i know that when your hands and mind are busy with art...the fighting ends.
the head was cut from a grocery bag.
the beak and feet were orange painted cardboard.
but construction paper would be fine.
googley eyes!
all kids love googley eyes.
talby made some glasses.
sean's has the mustache.
annie came up with the idea for making clothes, arms and writing "Don' eat me for thanksgiving" - so cute!
if you live somewhere that doesn't have all these pretty leaves on the ground...you could use paper.
or fake leaves.
i found this craft through the crafty crow.
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some of you have asked me what i do with all their art projects.
i hang them up!
some of them.
talby has hung most of hers in on her closet door.
and we pass them out to friends or family who visit.
and i am ok with throwing projects away after time.
i am not a saver.
i can throw stuff out without the guilt.
