VALENTINE STRESS

Valentines Day for Sadie is so exciting.  Every year that she has been in school she has chosen to make her own valentines.   None of those commercial style valentines at the grocery store will do.  Her creative juices flow and there is no stopping her.  The only problem to this is that her creative juices tend to be last minute.  This never seems to be a problem for her, just me.  She had actually long decided what she was going to make, but with all of our busy schedules it was still done last minute.  I even tried to help out a lot by precutting before she got home from school.  But once she started making them, a cute cell phone with the valentine message like a text message, the example was clearly not good enough and she needed to add her own embellishments.  After working on them for a couple of hours she finally gave into my coaxing, yelling, and gave up on the extra embellishments.  The finished project was quite cute but then it was time to move on to the valentines box.  I had to leave the room.  With this project there was paper and glue everywhere.   I just die seeing all of this.  I try to tell myself that this is great.  Good for Sadie.  But it is sooooo hard.  

Now that it is all said and done I do think it's great.  I applaud her creativity.  She will ask me for help and I tell her that She has to clean up first.  That I can't work in this mess.  She tells me, that this is how she works best.  I really do try to find us a happy medium.   But sometimes I just pull out the control and tell her its my way or the highway.

I wish I had a picture of Jaxon.  He had to write his name on all 12 of his valentines and half way through he put his hand on his head and let out a big sigh.  It was such hard work for him to do that and get all of the letters right each time.  I am just glad that he's happy with spiderman.

                                                             Happy Valentines Day