Spring Breaking Point

This post is dedicated to Grace -- because she REALLY wanted me to blog about it.  Saturday was a gorgeous day.  And even though in my mind Spring Break didn't officially start until today (because, hello, Saturdays happen every week) Grace was chomping at the bit to carry out the most ridiculous idea she's come up with in a while.  And for those of you who know Grace, once she gets an idea in her head she won't let up until it's done.  In a word, she's relentless.

(Grace swiped my phone to take all of the pictures -- I refused to have anything to do with their festivities.)

So, despite the fact that Scott and I both told her repeatedly that her activity of Twister with shaving cream and paint was a TERRIBLE idea and would make a HUGE mess that there was no way she would completely clean, she eventually somehow convinced us that we should let her do it anyway.  Relentless, I tell you.  In all honesty, I was so annoyed with the whole prospect that I told her I would not be blogging about the event because I didn't want to reward her nonsense.

However, in the aftermath, I decided that it might be productive as a cautionary tale for anyone else who might be considering planning a similar activity.  Hahaha.  Because spoiler alert -- it made a huge mess, I don't see how it was even all that fun, it ruined all their clothes, and they definitely did not clean everything up to my satisfaction.  At least on their own.  Once they "finished" and we pointed out everything they missed, at least they begrudgingly got the job done.

 (Google Photos created this lovely little Then and Now of the girlie bugs.)

So that was our Spring Break "Day 1!"  Today was almost as aggravating (if not more).  You would have thought we were ruining everyone's lives by insisting that they help with some yard work and housework before moving on to our "fun" thing for the day.  Because I spent the weekend creating my landscaping plan for the yard, I'M now the one chomping at the bit to carryout all of my ideas. Hahaha.   In order for that to happen, however, there's a ton of clean up and prep work that needs to happen in the backyard.  After trimming lots of branches and pruning some bushes, I tried to get the kids to help clear out all the sticks so we could move the trampoline to the spot it always should have been and dismantle the old, falling apart trampoline that the previous owners left behind.  I'll have to dedicate a  whole blog post to those before and afters, but rest assured that there was minimal effort exerted on most of the kids' parts.  Those kids!  Hahahahaha.   Stay tuned for more Spring Break highlights.  ;)

 (Grace's contribution to the yard work was to pose with these cut down bamboo shoots.)