craft art

The kids and I recently made sidewalk chalk. I know. Such ambition chalks shocks even me. You see, I hate crafts. Always have. And despite my best efforts to be THAT mom, I always will. I grew up with a domestic goddess mother so renowned that she opened the most acclaimed English tea rooms and gift shops in the city. Such domesticity must have skipped a generation because my daughter Hadley shares my mom’s talent. In an effort to support her ambitions, I recently sent her to art camp. You know. So I wouldn’t have to do it with her. Hadley had her birthday late-May and when people asked me what to buy, I cheerfully replied, “Get her anything to do with crafts.” This plan completely flopped because I forgot to include the important provision that “No parental i...