Fall = A time to be creative

Welp, the rain has started here. I'm not a fan of the ran, I dare say I HATE the rain. When I lived in Idaho, I thought rain was so amazing and I loved it...because it rarely rained. Now that I'm in good ol' Oregon, my feelings have changed and I've come to despise the rain. For one, I have naturally curly hair - not good for rain (a whole lot of frizz going on). Two, I have two little boys who move slower than molasses getting in and out of a car, so errands are awful! And three, I just have a hard time handling the gloominess around here. There, done with my venting.

On a positive side, my creative juices start flowing when I can't just send the boys in the backyard to play. I use the dreary weather to take time to make crafts with the boys. We don't do huge things because they are two and three. We color A LOT. We cut paper A LOT. We make paper plate masks and wreathes out of candy corn. The boys are so messy, but they absolutely love making things. They get so excited to create.

I am not very creative. I can see an idea and copy it because I'm a perfectionist, but I can't just come up with an idea in my head. I hope that spending time with the boys just letting them create whatever and however they want, will somehow spark a creative part of their brain. I want them to have the confidence to try anything or do anything! For some reason I associate that to creating paper plate masks. I want them to make what comes to their imagination and not say, "no, that's not how you do it". I want to encourage them to go wild and dream big even if it's just with a paper plate. Is that weird?

Maybe I am weird, but I know that I lacked so much confidence in high school. I missed out on so much because I was afraid to try. I always wanted to be the best, so if I didn't think I had a chance at being the best, well, I just didn't even try. I never want my boys to have that attitude. I want them to try whatever their heart desires, and I want to be their biggest fan in whatever they choose.

These are their "monster masks"

Elias LOVES to growl