Come Purim time, and Eden's costume is usually hanging in the closet already, my mom having bought it on sale after Halloween in the states. There is no way that I am going to try to make a costume for her - a store bought one for 10 dollars is just fine, thank you.
There are always those friends of mine who spend weeks before Purim shopping for materials, speaking with their three and four and five and six year olds about what they want to dress up as, and then the week before Purim spending hours sewing, cutting, gluing, and glittering.
Thats when I and some other friends of mine stand around the water cooler and say, "SOME moms make their kids costumes. OTHER moms just go to the closest store and buy the most acceptable one they can find for the least money. And some OTHER moms send their kids over to their neighbors house, who has a mom whose been making costumes for 10 years straight now, so that they can go pick one out to borrow for free."
Come Shavuot time, and Eden has a party at gan. Every year, we are asked to bring the same things - send the kids dressed in festive white, with a bag of dried fruit, and a dairy snack that they like, and a flower wreath for their hair.
So:
Dairy snacks - check. We always have yogurt around.
Dried fruit - check. Same goes for raisins. This year dried apricots too.
Festive white - that same shirt that got stained 3 holidays ago at gan - its her special gan "festive white". No way I'm staining another one.
Flower wreath - this is a singular Israeli thing that kids do. No American kid would be caught dead wearing a flower wreath on their hair like some Celtic druid or very very old Greek god (from before they had golden leaves). Eden never particularly likes them, and every year I forget to buy one. They are in the grocery store all the time, and I always figure that I'll just get one Thursday night when I go shopping.
And every year I forget that by the time it comes to the night before, there are no more flower wreaths to be had. Every child in the country under 6 is wearing one this morning.
So every year, the night before the Shavuot party, I make a flower wreath out of a piece of ribbon with construction paper flowers stapled or taped to it. It will work for a couple hours, stay on her head, it does look pretty, and takes 15 minutes to make. The hardest part is drawing the flowers.
But because of the Purim costume thing, I thought it was so funny when Eden got to gan this morning, and another mother commented, "Wow. SOME mothers make their kids wreaths. OTHER mothers go out and buy them from the store."
There are always those friends of mine who spend weeks before Purim shopping for materials, speaking with their three and four and five and six year olds about what they want to dress up as, and then the week before Purim spending hours sewing, cutting, gluing, and glittering.
Thats when I and some other friends of mine stand around the water cooler and say, "SOME moms make their kids costumes. OTHER moms just go to the closest store and buy the most acceptable one they can find for the least money. And some OTHER moms send their kids over to their neighbors house, who has a mom whose been making costumes for 10 years straight now, so that they can go pick one out to borrow for free."
Come Shavuot time, and Eden has a party at gan. Every year, we are asked to bring the same things - send the kids dressed in festive white, with a bag of dried fruit, and a dairy snack that they like, and a flower wreath for their hair.
So:
Dairy snacks - check. We always have yogurt around.
Dried fruit - check. Same goes for raisins. This year dried apricots too.
Festive white - that same shirt that got stained 3 holidays ago at gan - its her special gan "festive white". No way I'm staining another one.
Flower wreath - this is a singular Israeli thing that kids do. No American kid would be caught dead wearing a flower wreath on their hair like some Celtic druid or very very old Greek god (from before they had golden leaves). Eden never particularly likes them, and every year I forget to buy one. They are in the grocery store all the time, and I always figure that I'll just get one Thursday night when I go shopping.
And every year I forget that by the time it comes to the night before, there are no more flower wreaths to be had. Every child in the country under 6 is wearing one this morning.
So every year, the night before the Shavuot party, I make a flower wreath out of a piece of ribbon with construction paper flowers stapled or taped to it. It will work for a couple hours, stay on her head, it does look pretty, and takes 15 minutes to make. The hardest part is drawing the flowers.
But because of the Purim costume thing, I thought it was so funny when Eden got to gan this morning, and another mother commented, "Wow. SOME mothers make their kids wreaths. OTHER mothers go out and buy them from the store."
1 comment:
Give yourself a break. It's hard to be a working parent and then find the energy to create or be creative with your children when your energy level is down or if it just simply isn't your thing.
Think about it this way - time not spent on projects you don't enjoy is time available to spend with Eden on things you do like to do.
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