When my friend requested I build a UPS truck for her UPS obsessed twins Halloween costume, I was thrilled. I LOVELOVELOVE making stuff out of stuff that looks like other stuff. I got the crap craft ‘talent’ from my mother who once made set of lampshades out of Styrofoam cups. Very stylish lampshades, might I add, that then became the key element of the most fabulous ball game Brother and I would play. A simple game where one had to throw a rubber band ball into one of the cups of her pretty lampshade - without breaking any pieces off or getting caught by Mom, and, when the cups were invariably broken, lie, lie, lie. So, making things out of things that look like other things is in my blood. And, a Halloween UPS truck sounded like the perfect project to tackle while Mom was in town. Except I forgot, that I married my mother. And that I have become my mother. See, like Mom, Husband knows everything. Like he knows every little thing about every little thing. And like me, Mom asks questions, lots and lots of questions about every little thing. Which means I hate to make things out things that look like other things with Mom or with Husband around because they have advice – loads of advice – which I don’t want and loads of questions that I don't care to answer. It also means, if I am stupid enough to ask either one of them a specific question about how to solve a problem in my project, they will give me advice on all the other possible scenarios that might work if I did that thing to this or this thing to that or scrapped the project all together and tried something else. Not helpful at all. And yet, despite all her not at all helpful help, Mom was instrumental in figuring out how to attach the UPS truck to the red flyer so that it would be removable if needed or, if my math was off (very likely) and it wouldn’t fit in my friend's car. Mom is awesome. And, look, my – our – UPS truck is awesome! Yay for teamwork! Now, if we can make it through the rest of the visit without any more projects, we should be fine.
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Jana
10/14/2015 08:35:47 am
Wow! I'm impressed. Great job Ej.
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Q.D
10/15/2015 12:23:18 am
I love it!
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