So I've been embarking on my break between drafts. My goals were to read all of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, bake something, do a craft with my girls, and do an adult craft on my own. Well, I finished the Cursed Child pretty quickly, as expected. I baked what was going to be zucchini bread with my daughter Megan but turned out to be pumpkin bread because my zucchini went bad. And of course, when I baked the bread, it rose so quickly that it decided to volcanic-ly ooze out the side throughout the duration of the baking so that the ends burnt and the middle was still, well ooze.
I made the mistake of filling the one bread pan too full and that was my result. Needless to say, as tasty as the baked part was, we lost most of the loaf to ooze or overly baked portions. Normally I'm not that bad at cooking and baking in general, but I guess I'm just off my game. Who am I kidding? Bread seems to remain a mystery to me. Unless, of course, I use a Krusteaz box of pre-mixed dry ingredients.
Now onto my adult craft: I was going to bind my first book. However, I'm pretty tight on money so I used the alternate versions a screw punch or awl called "the push pin." Thank you, Youtube, I may as well have saved myself the grief and the annoyance. I gave up pretty quick when the hole it had created was too small for the large needle I had to have and the thread to pull through the holes I had made. I pretty much destroyed the nice paper I was trying to use.
Let's be honest: I didn't completely destroy it, but to save what was left of it, I decided to stop before it was unusable in any other case.
As for the kids' craft: I still haven't decided on a craft yet, but I hope to do one with them tomorrow. And crappy or not, it will be finished and enjoyed because that is the beauty of kid crafts. It's about the effort and the fun, not the end result. I can make the world's saddest craft and still come out as a hero mom for having fun and getting messy.
My draft has already been staring me down. It is currently sitting in my closet away from my children's fingers, crayons, and constant drool (my son is teething). Every time I open the closet even for a moment, it catches my eye and says "hello," quite beadily. It's waiting for my return, calling for my red pen and my extra notes now that I have an actual draft.
I'm fairly sure that this week it will begin once again, and my absence may be poignant. But it is my main agenda besides my family, and besides working to lose some weight.
My sanity is ebbing due to the stress of work and home life (mostly work and how much I want to be somewhere else when I am there), so exercise is key for me in my sanity. It probably won't harm my writing and clarity of thought either. I seem more organized in thought when I am able to run out in nature and truly feel the world around me.
So the in-betweens could have gone better, but so could the first draft. Big deal. At least I finished it. At least I can say I accomplished it. But now, it's time to get back to work. After my craft with my girls though. Pinterest, here I come for some fun kid craft ideas. Worst case scenario: we will paint ourselves and each other and have a blast making memories of the worst craft ever.
