I have just come back from the sale with two bargins - a craft box (an 'imagination' one, not a kit) and a dough set with assorted cutters and moulds etc.
We have had it out for 5 minutes, ds (5) has tried to make a dinosaur with pom-poms and pipe-cleaner things and, despite my 'help', is now in tears as the fucking things just will not stick together. I have had this so many times and remember it from my own childhood - is there any glue that actually sticks??? I am not much help as I find it so frustrating and find it hard to hide this.
Meanwhile, ds2 (2.10) has opened all the dough and, as usual, is just mushing it all together in one huge, multi-coloured ball. Sorry, but what is the point? If I show him how to use the bits and try to make something - even something very simple, it turns into me doing it and him watching, otherwise it's just him making a giant ball. For what?
Doesn't help that last week we went on a playdate with a perfect crafty mum whose daughter was making amazing stuff and the glue, you know, stuck stuff. Said Mum made an amazing, award-winning har for the YR jubilee hat comp just weeks after giving birth.
Dh is ill, it's fucking raining, the house is being photographed to go on sale tomorrow and I just feel like tipping the whole lot into the bin and cracking open the wine. AIBU?