Projects

I do love a good project. 

In college, I was always better at putting together a project than taking any test. I think it's because projects get your creative juices flowing instead of just spitting out memorized information and the time spent putting one together is so much more enjoyable than studying. Anybody else like this?

You can imagine how excited I get when my children bring home project assignments. Remember THIS? Well, Phoebe brought home her first "project" last week. She needed to make a poster that told her class all about her. 

Naturally I broke out the glitter and the glue and the photos and we got to work. What project can't be made better with a little glitter?

She and Eli brainstormed the things she wanted to tell her class and then I found photos to go with them. While Eli and Brad headed off to baseball practice, the glue and glitter started flying. It was pretty fun...despite that one moment where she told me it was her project and she wanted to do it her way. Sigh. She just doesn't get it, does she? :) 

But she was all smiles when she headed off to school this morning. I was not considering all the glitter that now lives all over my house. Seriously. It looks like a fairy got hit by the glitter truck in my kitchen. 

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