This evening I need to be brief. I'm feeling tired and I'm fairly certain my brain is not working well as a result. Today we were at home all day. It was really quite wonderful! We completed all of our school work, did the laundry, the kids built a museum in a blanket tent, we all Skyped with Gramma, and we did some finger painting.
That last one was one of those things I really didn't want to do. Elizabeth had been asking to paint for the last couple of days, but I really hate all that's involved in getting prepared for and cleaning up from painting. We do usually have "free paint" time on Fridays. But today is not Friday. Then I was reminded of something I heard once about times you should tell your kids 'no' versus when you say 'no' just because you don't want to do something, when really, there's no reason not to. So I shifted from the 'no' that was about to escape my lips, opting for 'okay' instead.
Then, the kids grabbed the finger paints instead of the regular paints. Aurgh! Again, I was about to give them a quick 'no, it's too messy and we don't have the right paper' when it "occurred to me" (Thanks, Lord!) we could use waxed paper and make something like stained-glass windows.
And you know what? They had fun. I watched them work as I fed Katherine. (note: giving a three-year-old finger paints and nursing a baby at the same time *could* be a little stressful for some mothers ... like me!) Close to the end of Katherine's feeding I decided I'd make one too, and got to it as soon as I could.
In full disclosure, I did do some yelling at Brian on several occasions about being more careful and when he got paint on my shirt because he was swinging his hands around on the way to the sink to wash up. (I feel like I'm yelling at him a lot lately; but that's fodder for a different post!)
Overall, though, we had a really good time. I enjoyed watching how differently they created their paintings; I enjoyed getting my fingers messy too!
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