Last week I was at the teacher supply store and picked up this book filled with crafts all about space - planets, space stations, shuttles. Since The Son is fascinated with all things space, I decided this would be great "down day" fodder and I bought it. Yesterday I spent $70 at the craft store purchasing all the supplies for the various projects and this morning was our first project. We selected the Jupiter and Sun models. Jupiter consisted of blowing up a balloon, gluing strips of newspaper around it, painting it with red and yellow and then making the "spot" out of a pie tin (tiny one), glitter and buttons, etc. I ended up gluing on the newspaper strips (not too lovely I might add - I never was crafty) and The Son ended up with paint everywhere. The sun was wire shaped in a circle with "flares" off the sides and we used colored tissue paper and cellophane to make the sun. The sun actually turned out beautiful, I'll have to post a picture of it.... but I still feel like it was such a stressful thing for us to do.

I'm fighting off a cold... please, please, Goddess, don't let it hit me full bore. I have so much to do this week and not enough time to do it. Yoga, cooking class, dinner with a friend, yoga, yoga, packing, yoga ;)