{"id":521,"date":"2011-09-20T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T05:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:59:59","slug":"the-day-our-children-delighted-in-rags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"The day our children delighted in rags"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sock<\/a>As a career mom, I don’t often get the chance to just hang around home for more than two days at a time. This week, due to a mix of circumstances, I was home for five days straight, mainly with my husband–usually the stay-at-home-dad–away at work.<\/p>\n

The first day was great – I even managed a successful mall outing (I didn’t know that was possible with energetic preschoolers). The next day I actually got to have a coffee date with a friend<\/a>. By the fourth day, things were deteriorating. Straight from a parent’s nightmare…barefoot, pantless two-year-old running away across the entire grocery store, back-to-back meltdowns over forgotten water cups, son obsessed with pouring his own juice and rearranging the toolboxes, my own health being poor. Let’s face it, I was ready to go back to work by the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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So when I unexpectedly had a fifth day off, I decided we’d better make it more interesting. In the afternoon, I spontaneously decided we would make sock puppets, as I had seen some when flipping through a library book called Creative Illustration Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists<\/a>. We each picked a sock and some scraps, and I started making puppets.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>I was impressed how fascinated the kids were, watching me stitch by hand. I realized this is the kind of thing I would probably be doing if I were around home all the time.<\/p>\n

This morning it was like Christmas morning, when the kids discovered all three puppets were completed. And while I was content heading back to work but still had time to squeeze in an early morning puppet show!<\/p>\n

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