when my kids ask for yarn,
i give it to them (along with some adult supervision)
and i try not to lead or censor, i just watch and see what they’ll do.
our last ‘yarn day’ (because
once i give them a little, they want more and more…sound familiar?)
looked partly like this:
‘hey mama, i knit myself!’
‘psst, let’s scare mama…hey mama, can you come upstairs for a minute?’
‘shh, please. i’m fishing for a kitten.’
(i only tell you what they tell me.)
fyi: we don’t have a kitten, because papa & i said ‘no’.
developing the urge to save some for later (aka: stashing).
eventually, i sent them outside,
yarn in hand.
wanna guess what they did?
they built a ‘laser field’ worthy of a good spy movie
about 2 feet high that covers most of the back yard.
yup, and they involved a young neighbor in the outdoor construction,
so now there’s probably a mom nearby who
can’t figure out why her kid
keeps asking
for yarn.
ha.