Turns Out? I AM One Of Those Mothers
So, it’s 9:45 at night here in Warsaw – greetings, y’all! – and guess what I have just finished doing?
Tomorrow afternoon, Max’s playschool is putting on a performance to celebrate the last ‘official’ day of the school year (a bit ridiculous, seeing as 100% of the kids will be back on Friday, but you know, I am all for anything that has my kid singing and dancing) and all the munchkins have to dress up as a frog, or a bunny, or something else which I forget, so I had to decide between Max being a frog or bunny, and settled on bunny because, really, how hard is it to draw bunny ears?
Turns out that I am even more artistically challenged than even I realised, and so tonight provided yet another example of what I like to call ‘Thank God For Google’. I googled ‘bunny ears template’ and then spent a lovely 30 minutes colouring them and pasting them on to cardboard (actually, I used one of my work files) then cutting it all out. And as I did this, I suddenly realised that I am one of those Moms who do arts-and-crafts-type stuff for their kids in the evenings, after the kids have gone to bed. If you had told me even just five years ago that I’d be sitting here colouring bunny ears for a school show I’d have tossed my glossy hair, dropped my sushi, spilled my expensive white wine and then fallen off my chair laughing, losing a fabulous high-heeled sandal in the process; note that all of this would conceivably have taken place at 9:45 on a Thursday evening, or any evening really, as I was hardly ever home at night.
Having said this: I did all this arty Mommy stuff with an Adrien Arpel papaya enzymatic massage facial mask slathered on my face and throat. Perhaps all is not lost.
As long as 5 years from now you’re not selling Tupperware and wearing floral print house dresses I think you’re good.
Damn! There goes the fall-back career!
Now, please excuse me while I go clean out my wardrobe…
Aww good for you! I have yet to do something like this… I’m not so good at crafty stuff. >_
Good for you!
I am also craft/s-challenged. At one stage a teacher of my eldest daughter commented that her work really look like her “own” doing. Where, in fact, I had helped her considerably on her water-wheel construction. *Sigh*
I’ve been there. I once spent an entire summer working on props for my daughters’ shared rainforest-themed birthday party that September. We created various animals and birds out of cardboard and painted them with great attention to detail. We had animals, birds, and reptiles all over the backyard and even created our version of the Amazon River, complete with a cardboard bridge and a crocodile in the water. Insanity.
Now, I’m begging my daughters to have their birthday parties away from the house this year, so that all I need to do is pay money and be done with it.
If you start scrapbooking and sewing all of your kids clothes I’m breaking up with you.
Just kidding.
As a glossy haired, sushi loving, wine drinking, high heel wearing single girl, I laughed when reading this. That being said, there’s something rather adorable about bunny ears: http://www.flickr.com/photos/missmaple/2329232260/
Don’t worry… I’m meant to be a ‘Fun Mum’ but I’ve done the same… many times. Many a time I’ve not been organised and had to do everything between craft and homework. You’re in good company. And btw, your writing is fab.
Bunny ears look great! Well done:) I adore kids dancing shows….Wish you a fun and hopefully sunny Sunday! Its raining here:(
See you soon:)
I just saw the photos my friend (also from Warsaw) took of her daughter at her pre-school year end. SO darn adorable. She just admitted to not being able to do anything artistic like that and asked the neighbour lol
I also ended up being one of THOSE moms…I too never expected that to happen!!!