Kids Creativity

My first Tuesday without KidZone found me exhausted napping at the Subaru dealership in Capitola as my oil was being changed.

KidZone was definitely a learning experience for me this last year. The biggest challenge was probably coming up with weekly crafts. Yes, you heard right, I, Nicole Alvernaz, had to be crafty once a week. Sometimes the craft was just cool and had nothing to do with the lesson, like when we used tennis balls to make pumpkin puppets. (Thanks Mom). Other times we were so tired and out of ideas the kids got a coloring page and word search. Oddly enough they seemed to enjoy it. Go figure. 

Some days the craft was a show up and make it work, other days well.... I think the picture speaks for itself. I must have spent a good 45 minutes crumpling pieces of paper bags, and wetting them through. By the time I was done I had paper bags drying all over the kitchen. It was ridiculous and made me question my sanity. Doing all of this without a second thought, what kind of a monster had I become?  

That day we were studying the 10 Commandments. The craft, on old looking animal hide/paper right a simplified version of the 10 Commandments and decorate. Which the kids did. However the real creativity came out later as some of the kids decided the 10 Commandments needed some additions. The following photos are what they thought was missing.

 I've got to admit, some of them are brilliant! Particularly the junk food and pizza ones.

Summer Plan aka No More Chicken With Head Hacked Off

To all my avid readers, I apologize in the large amount of time in between posts. Things got extremely hectic in the weeks leading to Mother's Day. They ended with me informing my Mother not to be surprised for the next 100 years or so; something she is quite ok with.

Since then I have been recouping. (Yes it was that crazy. Besides, in my being in the second half of my 20's I'm practically ancient. Working 'til 11 or midnight and then getting up and going again at 6-6:30 am takes it's toll when you're my age). It's been strange to have time to relax after work, and to a certain extent, I haven't known what to do with myself. It's going to be even stranger once KidZone let's out for summer (this is our last week. Yes! I mean....) as I find myself with an actual day off!

Between sleep deprivation and sudden time on my hands, my brain has gone haywire and I find myself, you ready for it? THINKING. I've been thinking about the craziness of the last couple months, what I want to accomplish this summer, and even about tackling Sunday School at Church next fall.

Conclusions, my life is a mess, I keep running from one thing to the next and don't take time to do things like, my dishes, (poor Aunt Judy), or clean my room, or wash my car, or bake/cook, or work on various random projects I have either started or been meaning to get to. So much to do, so little time.

So this summer my goal is to reset my life. Take some time to rest, and actually get stuff done so I don't keep having to run around like a chicken with my head hacked off. The spurting blood is a pain to clean.

That's the plan anyway. Who knows, maybe posting this will make me stick to it for once.