Hello all! Lots of changes around our household as of late...we had our first "Meatless Monday" this week, I made Indian-style chickpeas. They were fairly decent, but I'm not sure if I'll make them again...to be fair though, hubby and I were both fighting off what we know now was a mild case of food poisining (from frozen pizza no less, not even food from a restaraunt!), so I only ate about 5 bites of the dish before my tummy couldn't handle it anymore. Hopefully next Monday will work out a little better. Also, the barmops as an alternative to paper towels is working out quite well, even with my mom who previously seemed hopelessly addicted to paper products...she even asked if there were any other ways to go a little greener around the house! We're still working out what exactly we'd all be willing to do though. The biggest change this week though is the re-working of my son's daily schedule. He's now going to bed about an hour later and waking up about 2 hours earlier than he had been, so when it comes time for his afternoon nap he's actually sleeping instead of just playing in his bed. Today before nap time, he stripped down and asked to play in his little plastic tub that we have set up in our shower (it's an under-bed storage box that we got specifically for him to play with water in)...I think it's amazing that six months ago this same child would have screamed and cried at the mere suggestion of just playing in water, and now it's one of the things he likes to do most. As I was filling up the pitcher in the kitchen sink to fill his play tub, he grabbed a banana off the kitchen counter and proceeded to peel and eat it, which is cool, I mean at least it's something healthy and not junk food, but I know my kid and I know he almost never eats the whole banana, so I figured I'd find it later, half-eaten and in an unusual place (like I normally do lol). He ran off to play in the water and I needed to go attend to his sister, so I kinda forgot about the banana until after he was taking his nap later. I actually had both kids sleeping and was contemplating taking a much needed nap myself when i walked into the bathroom and looked in his playtub...and what do I see, low and behold it's a very waterlogged half-eaten banana! Who knew that a banana could absorb that much water...I mean seriously, it almost fell apart when I fished it out of the water. I think that's gonna be a tough one to beat as far as wierd places to find half-eaten food.
Anyway, on to a new topic...I've been finding new inspirations for craft projects to try out recently, I think part of it has to do with the scrapbooking show I record daily on my DVR. Lots of new ideas every time I watch it, which is cool in a way, but you must also keep in mind that I kinda have "craft ADD". Let me explain...I have a tendency to get an idea for a craft project to do stuck in my head, so I go out and gather all the supplies I'll need to do said project, then I sometimes get a little bored with it about halfway to three-quarters of the way through the project and move on to the next thing that gets stuck in my brain, leaving the first project uncompleted in the bag I'm using for that particular project. You really have no idea just how many Hobby Lobby bags are sitting around my house with partially done projects in them...it's actually quite sad. To be fair, I do periodically find a project bag and then finish up that crafty bit, but more times than not it's many months (sometimes years) before that actually happens. I have discovered that if it's a project for my kids, I'm much more likely to actually finish it in a timely fashion, but if it's something for myself or just something that I was working on to pass the time or try a new technique, it often sits unfinished for a long time. Example: somewhere in our storage unit I have a bag with a partially made crochet capelet (in white yarn, no less!) just begging to be completed, and I'd love to be able to wear it once it is...I have all the yarn needed to finish the project, the pattern (bought on clearance), the correct size crochet hook and even the perfect button for its closure, yet I have no idea when it'll actually be done. I don't even remember why that particular item got set aside...I still love the pattern, it wasn't super hard (hard enough to be a challenge, but not so hard that I wanted to throw the blasted thing across the room), I absolutely adore the chosen yarn (super soft with a slight sheen to it and works up like a dream) and it wasn't a lack of free time...this project was started before I was even pregnant with my first child (he's 2 now, to put things in perspective a bit). I guess what I really should do is to start going through all my old "project bags", either here at the house or in storage, and actually finish my old projects before I start any new ones...but that's something that's really hard for me. Maybe in my case it's more like craftaholism than craft ADD, I'm always looking for my next "craft fix", going on my latest "craft binge", only to leave past benders behind in my wake, never finished, destined to do a craft walk of shame all the way to the closet or, let's be honest here, nearest available flat surface. Is there a 12 step program for that? Hi, my name is Mousie and I'm a craftaholic. Until next time!
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