I hear quite a bit that I’m crafty. I do like to make things, but more and more, I feel like I come up with great ideas and then just never come through with the finish of them. Either I lose my motivation or I just don’t have the time and energy. Being a mom takes up a good bit of my time. And now that it’s spring, I have to be outside doing something every chance I get, no matter how chilly or gray. The sort of yard work that is happening right now is not anything glamorous. It’s pulling the early weeds. Raking the leaves I didn’t get last fall. Fertilizing, cutting back, spreading compost and manure.  Figuring out what I want to plant and what I want to move.  (I do love to rearrange my yard.) This week, I think I knitted two rows at best on Pat’s sweater.  We had a girl scout meeting.  I baked a cake for the Spring Fair at school.  We had two impromptu dinner parties with neighbors.  We are dog sitting this week, a wonderful old, zen dog, considering him an audition for a real dog, so there’s been quite a few walks and just ‘take the dog out’ breaks.  I finally got laundry caught up, now it needs to be put away. Edie & I have pulled out our warm weather wardrobe and started putting the cold weather clothes away until next fall.  There’s been other things going on that I don’t want to mention here just yet, but stay tuned….. we’ve been busy.  And I look around at the mess my house is and just feel overwhelmed at what still needs to be done.  I probably do a need a day where I throw it all out the window and just make something for the sake of making something.  This weekend it’s supposed to be chilly – snow is even in the forecast.  Our glorious tulip magnolia tree is in full bloom and last night’s frost turned it from pink to brown.