Trying to keep the days separate from one another has not been an easy task during the past four months. Taking a few photos every day seems to help, even if somedays I don’t feel overly motivated to document the day’s events. Hopefully, once this is all over I can revisit my posts and be reminded of all the good that happened and forget about all of the frustrations that came from craving normality.
Today, I spent a very large part of the day painting used newsprint for wrapping paper. Over the past few decades, I have learned that it’s more fun and more meaningful to make the things you can instead of buying them, especially simple things like wrapping paper. Unfortunately, a lot of our hurried society is often too consumed with other things to take time to make things meaningful. This makes me sad because there’s so much joy to be found in making things even if target sells a much less original version for a few dollars. Painting this wrapping paper for my daughter’s birthday gifts was enjoyable in many ways, just the act of creating was fun, and thinking of her while I thought out what kind of designs she would like to see on birthday gifts, and working next to my son, as he finished up painting an enormous box of cereal for his latest Instructables. Of course, I took many breaks to check in with our chicks.