I cannot sew to save my life. Ava came home the other day with a button in her hand. When I asked where it came from she informed me it came off of her uniform jumper. Most Mom'sw would have smiled nicely and said something like "oh, it's alright honey. Let me get my needle and thread out and sew that right back on for you." Not me. I say "oh, it's alright honey." Then I silently say to myself, "Crap. Now I am going to have to take this to Sew What, embarrasinly admit I do not have the skills to sew a button back on to my daughters uniform, and have them do it for me."
I cannot iron. Belive me, I have tried and tried to master the art of ironing and I just can't seem to do it. I can never seem to get the fabric to lay flat on the ironing board to get the wrinkles out. Because of this I have what look like streaks of folded over fabric all over the shirt I was attempting to iron. Not exactly the type of shirt you want to wear out in public. Because of this, I found myself spending quite a lot of dough at the local dry cleaners so my husband could go off to work looking put together and respectable. Lucky for me his job now entails him wearing RiverMarina t-shirts and cargo pants all day.
I cannot wrap presents. At all - really, I am quite horrible at it. I can never seem to get the corners to fold over ever so nice and neat into a nice triangle shape in order to use on little piece of tape to hold it in place. I usually get so frustrated when at this juncture of wrapping that I simply crumble it up at the ends and use 10 pieces of tape to hold it in place. The result is a present that looks as if a 5 year old wrapped it. This is, of course an easy fix. I simply use gift bags instead of wrapping paper. Problem solved.
These are just a few of the things I am not good at.
Anyway, I was reminded of my inability to wrap presents when I looked at pictures from Lucas' birthday celebrations the other day. In particular, the pictures from when he was opening his gift from the Mr. and I. Unfortunately, this gift could not fit in a gift bag, and I was forced to wrap it. Which of course, did not go well. After I cut the wrapping paper, I realized it was not long enough to cover the entire box. Hmmmm. What to do? Cut out two square pieces of wrapping paper to cover the ends of the box that were left uncovered. After doing this, I realized I had no tape. What to do? Well, use the next best thing - masking tape.
Needless to say, the wrap job was horrible.
Lucky for me, Lucas did not care.
Who knows, maybe someday I will master the art of wrapping presents, ironing, and sewing. Until then, I think I will get by just fine.
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