Things We Tell Our Children

I realized tonight that some of the things we tell our children we (or I, at least) should pay more attention to ourselves (or maybe just myself).  I know it's way too early to tell if she's ADD - she always gets distractable before bedtime.  Anyhow, while playing blocks with her dad, she suddenly realized she wanted to feed her baby doll some jello (jello being the bluish clear plastic DUPLO block).  We told her she needed to pick up her wooden blocks before she could get her Lego blocks out.  We want her to learn to pick up after herself, but also there's a finite amount of room on the floor and I've already come too near to cursing in front of her after stepping on them.  So she helped pick up, got her Legos, and finally it wormed its way into my head that I need to adhere to that myself.  At least I'm being good and not getting out more projects even though I want to.  First, I have to finish the ones I have out.  Or at least, put them away before getting something else out.

It's not making any mess, but after posting a few pictures of my quilt progress on Facebook, I've gotten a commission for one.  I know I need to finish the one I'm on first, but that isn't stopping me from turning it over in my head and thinking up ideas.  Designs on the computer don't take up any space in my workroom, or the dining room table, or the entry way, or anywhere else my craft paraphernalia is likely to be found.  However, that brings me to the other maxim I'm trying to learn: We do the things we have to do before we do the things we want to do.

I thank my husband (sometimes) for this bit of wisdom.  It's gotten under my skin, and I'm no longer able to happily walk past a chore on my way to a video game.  I know I won't enjoy the game until I've gotten the chore done.  Applied to my projects, this means I should be doing standard housework before working on crafts.  Which is no fun, but must happen.  Hence, there was no post yesterday.  I did do some work on the quilt.  More pieces got stitched into rows, some of them got ironed, and I bit the bullet and cut out setting triangles for the edges. (I am SO thankful to my friend who told me you can cut more than one thickness of cloth with the rotary cutter!!!)  A few more rows got knitted onto the scarf.  And ditto for today.  But mostly I've been focusing on keeping up with the kitchen dishes and laundry, things that started sliding when I threw myself at the project list.  Have to keep the priorities in order.

Tomorrow: Cake. Enchiladas. Vacuum. And maybe some sewing.