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“Today I was a snowflake making, pretzel baking, booty shaking, homeschooling mama. 

That was my status update at 3 pm last Friday. It sounds perfect but it wasn’t… so I would like to share the imperfection of the day with you.

Snowflake Making

“Mom, we need to make a snowflake curtain. It’s not fall anymore.”

I love the leaf curtain we made last fall, but she’s right… it looks out of place in the midst of the snow covered landscape surrounding us.

So I brought out a stack of unused coffee filters and “taught” my daughter how to make snowflakes. After a few attempts to show her how to delicately cut little shapes into it, I began to feel her frustration (and mine) climb. So I decided to back off, thinking, she’ll figure it out… and she did.

Pretzel Baking

We’re doing a science unit on the senses right now. What better way to explore the senses than to bake? What do you bake when you don’t have much to bake with? Pretzels of course! Have I ever made pretzels before? Absolutely not!

The toddler kept on licking her fingers and my oldest was whining that the dough was too sticky. I, myself, began to get annoyed with the elasticity of the dough. Despite all my efforts, I could not make a half decent pretzel shape. So once again, I backed off of the idea of perfection and the pretzels ended up looking rather cute (and they tasted delicious).

*High cooking temperatures will rid any baking of toddler germs right?*

Booty Shaking

My girls love to dance and they desperately wanted to have a dance party. I had planned that we would have a “refined” dance party to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons or Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. However, my girls desperately wanted to rock out to Sesame Street’s Hot, Hot, Hot. So I shook my booty to the rocking sounds of Elmo and Big Bird.

The day didn’t quite go the way I had planned and I’m glad because it ended up being wonderful.

Once again, parenting has shown me the perfection in imperfection. While we may start with ideas and intentions, there are lessons to be learned and joys to be discovered in simply just letting things be.

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Jennifer Bly
Author of My Kitchen, My Classroom: An Introduction to Homeschool and creator of The Deliberate Mom. Jennifer writes about parenting, homeschooling, her faith, and life with her husband and two girls. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Applied Human Service Administration Degree with a specialization in Early Learning in Child Care.



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