Crafts for detatchment

With kindergarten behind us, we’re ready to tackle more serious work head on. And by more serious work I mean the fine art of paper mache pyramids and salt dough map making. Yup! We’re throwing ourselves waist deep into Ancient Egypt! As prescribed by the classical trivium framework, ancient times come first. You know I never do anything half way, so we are living in Egypt within the Eugene city limits right now.

We are still waiting to hear back about the prospects of the Utah job that Joe interviewed for and I am so overcome with thoughts of moving and a new town that the only way I have found to distract myself is to wallow in Egyptian arts and crafts. The need to distract myself has really made me the home school mom that I always wanted to be. No activity has gone unexplored. We have painted our names in hieroglyphs with home made berry pigment, made Egyptian wigs from black yarn, and little clay soul houses. Poor Barbie even got mummified.  Heck! I even started this blog. All in the name of keeping too busy to think.

Baha’i friends have suggested prayers, the tablet of Ahmad and the like, while we live in job limbo. They say things like, “We cannot change God’s plan. You must not worry.” The fact is, I am not that enlightened yet and I do worry. And while I have recited the tablet of Ahmad a time or ten, I have also found that arts and crafts make for an excellent distraction. Who knows? Maybe this thematic unit was Gods funny little answer to my prayers. Maybe I’ll go on to write a self help book that supplements prayers for detachment with wicked cool decoupage and clay projects! Stranger things have happened. Right? Well, maybe not.

Anyway, there won’t always be accompanying photos, but here’s a little sample of our Egypt-mania thus far.