Cassidy and Braden like to make their own craft projects. They have spent much of the past 2 weeks on an ongoing Door Improvement Project. The fact that I let them even do this makes me feel like a nice mom, because when I was growing up my dad did not allow us to place Scotch tape on painted surfaces. He said it would ruin the paint.
Now, I don't know if the tape has changed, or the paint has changed, or if that was just my parents' excuse they used to keep us from putting junk all over the house -- but in my lameness I feel like I'm giving my children something I never had. (Seriously, it's not like I bought them a pony...)
My favorite part of Cassidy's door is the sign in the center that says, "Beware! Candy awaits you." Cassie told me a few days ago, "Do you know why that is funny? It's because candy isn't scary. Get it??" My eight year old has grasped irony.
First off, I'll have you know Braden colored the moon and sky in the ghost picture all by himself. I highly doubt I ever had the patience to make a nice looking coloring page like that when I was his age. I'm not, and never have been, what you'd call an artist OR patient.
I like Braden's door because so many things Await You. Bats. Mummies. Gosts. (Yes, gosts.) And, in copycat-brother fashion, Candy too.
4 comments:
I don't think I could put scotch tape on my door or walls either when I was younger. Maybe paint was really bad back in the 80's. However, I just found a piece of tape on my bedroom door in my house a few weeks ago I'm sure has been there for at least a year, and when I pulled it off, there was no damage on my door. Go figure!
My kids are always taping things on the walls...I've made them limit it to the girls room and let them know it's only going to last until I get around to painting their room because then I'm going to be the mean mommy who wants a cute room :)
I'm the same with the fridge...I hate things stuck all over it with magnets!
I think it is ok to live viaciously through our children at times. I was never allowed to hang pictures on the fridge...only a empty clean fridge front was allowed in our home. So I feel like I am slightly incomplete due to that and allow my children to hang up pictures. It does become slightly frustrating when they hang things on the bottom of the freezer portion so it hangs over the fridge portion...I don't know what they think that line is for!
I have NEVER laughed at a post out loud like I just did. I don't know why, but just picturing you saying that killed me. I recently hung a piece of artwork of Gav's in a frame above the stove to humor him and everytime someone comments on it, I get a little buzz, and feel like such a good mother. "Door improvement project" = hilarious.
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