Forced Inspiration
Posted on: 27 Feb, 2009|Comments: 6|Views: 448|Likes: 3| INT
I am NOT a Martha Stewart. I like to cook because of the built in room for messiness, but I don’t bake well and I am definitely not crafty. I don’t bead wine glass rings or make dresses for dolls. You won’t find glittering place cards or napkins folded in the shape flowers and swans at your spot at my dinner table, even on the fanciest occasions.
That is, unless my children are involved.
Everyone always says their children teach them so much. That’s true in my case. My children have taught me to dive into things… projects like sewing and candle-making and tie-dye that I never thought I would have anything to do with. But I use the word “taught” loosely. Really, this is forced inspiration.
When your kindergarten daughter says with wide, blinking blue eyes that she really wants to be a big fat strawberry for Halloween, you find a way to make that big fat strawberry costume (and all the other big fat fruit costumes she requests in subsequent years). When your other daughter says, giving you a hug, that it would be so nice if you could only help her with the scarf she’s knitting, you learn to knit (okay, not well, but enough to get by - basic cast on, knit, pearl, cast off). And, when your second grade son tells you that he is going to bring fruit to school and he is so excited about his vision of a Fruit Ship …well, you dig down deep and you find a way. Kind of like the mother that supposedly lifted a car off her small child…Motherhood brings out all sorts of strengths you didn’t know you had.
Submitted by Kenneth on 02 Mar, 2009 04:09 PM GMT
I'm not a mother, but as a Dad I've also been inspired to learn new skills to help my daughter out. Probably the most fun has been learning to ski with my daughter, Katherine. I started skiing with her when she was two and it's been wonderful to go from beginner to half-way decent with her together, rather than teaching her 'how to do something'.
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Submitted by Gomathi on 28 Feb, 2009 10:40 AM GMT
Hello Kirsten,
What a proud little boy! Children appreciate all the little things that moms do, though they might not always express this. It is what makes a mom so special. You are setting a tremendous example for your children to follow!
My mom helps my brother to renovate his house and he is an
architect! She hems trousers for my other brother who is a surgeon!
She never stops helping her kids!
Hey, how did I forget my mom?! In India, almost all mothers live for their children. That is the only hold for their lives. My mum is the best mum, one sec, will go see her and come back:)))
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Submitted by Creative on 28 Feb, 2009 09:07 AM GMT
Hello Kirsten,
What a proud little boy! Children appreciate all the little things that moms do, though they might not always express this. It is what makes a mom so special. You are setting a tremendous example for your children to follow!
My mom helps my brother to renovate his house and he is an architect! She hems trousers for my other brother who is a surgeon! She never stops helping her kids!
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Submitted by Gomathi on 28 Feb, 2009 06:17 AM GMT
You are so right, Kirsten! Motherhood brings out qualities in us, which we don't know that existed in the first place!
I too had become an amateur scientist while helping my daughter with her projects for exhibitions, learnt painting, keyboard and swimming along with her, just to give her company while learning and for inspiration.
The fruit ship in his hands could bring an image of a ship builder and designer in his eyes, when he grows up! I felt that you are a marvellous mother engaging 3 kids, after reading this blog:) Hats off!!
Kids are lucky to have a mother like you:)
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