Dear Pinterest

Dear Pinterest, 

I've been staying at home since my daughter was born, and doing so has turned me into an addict. I can't help it, I'm addicted to you! "Oh how cool, a wonderful website of glorious things to make, bake, create and have everlasting memories with my children," I thought. Good job Pinterest. You got me! You got me good F*cker! What lies you show!!! Those pins that are ultimately baked in perfection, and that sugar rimmed dessert glass all perfect and such. All the hype of the DIY. You (you inanimate object, you!) make things complicated. You are like a bad relationship: getting my hopes and confidence up, just to watch me fail! This is the last time Pinterest. I am coming back with a vengeance!  Thanks for the love/hate relationship! In the end, I will prevail and make that pin work! (Even if it costs me double what it should have!) You haven't seen the end of me! 

Love, 

Mama Robyn

This was my latest Pinterest attempt - making Corona glasses for my brother out of beer bottles.

1. Assemble empty bottles, lighter fluid, cold water, string, and lighter.  "Here honey, I need you to drink this 6 pack of Corona," said the best wife ever as I came in the front door on a Sunday. Thanks to the hubby (and his liver) for his 'sacrifice' of helping with my art project!

Step 2:

Safety first! (As I'm not wearing glasses!)

Soak string in lighter fluid and fit it snugly around the bottle of where you would like it to be cut off. 

Step 3

Ignite the string soaked with lighter fluid.

Step 4

Slowly rotate the bottle so that the flame heats up the glass evenly.

Step 5

This step actually doesn't have a picture...but it's where you put the bottle into cold water. 

Step 6:

Another Pinterest fail! 

Step 7

Attempt 4 other bottles, and 1 wine bottle. Then, ask Kasen to dump out the ice water. 

Step 8

Get a good laugh from Sean. We were attempting a science project and he was burying his self in face paint (aka mud!) 

Thanks Pinterest for the epic fail! Is Pinterest really a bunch of men trying to make their wives into crafty homemakers? Hmm..my conspiracy theory starts! 

Toddler at a Museum

Sounds like a bad movie right? Snakes on a plane, Toddler in a Museum, ahhhh!

Daddy is an artist and a teacher. Because of those things, I expect that out kids will be involved in art somehow (even if it's just to attend an opening or a show to "show your tribe") so I thought it would be good to get them started on attending different things now.

The McNay offered a program a few Sundays ago where there was a talk about cultural artwork and an activity. We showed up late (unintentionally) so we missed the talk but got to peruse the museum and attend the activity (which involved taking old small toys and building a sculpture out of them, hot gluing the sculpture, and taking home a souvenir).

Now this would have been all fine and good except for two things. It started at 1. Nap time starts at 1. Sage slept through most of it, but Silas stayed awake like the trooper he is. Then when we got to the sculpture building part he wanted to go through all the toys (holding up the line) and he just wanted to play with them (not build a sculpture). Whenever Mike tried to help him build, Silas would take the toys back and play with them. Finally we took a tired toddler out to the car and left his toys for another kid to build with (I felt badly taking toys and not building).

Moral of the story: Si's not ready for this sort of stuff yet and I should have known that and not pushed it. He enjoyed sitting in the stroller and checking out the paintings for a bit, so maybe we'll just stick with that for now. We'll stroll, talk about museum etiquette (you can't touch, stay behind this line, etc.), and look at some cool stuff. Maybe in a few years we can go to the activity portions.