SATURDAY -- Talk about being late! I went to see Will Farell's new movie "Blades of Glory" last night and I guess I laughed so hard that when I got home, my backpain was back in full force. I took a pain pill and zonked out before I set my alarm clock. I woke up at 10:57am and I was due at the library at 10am. I called Theresa to explain and I did not get there till 12pm. I missed the storytelling at 10:30am and I regret not seeing the little ones.
I asked Theresa today how she chooses the stories she read to the children. I noticed that she had themes and she said that she would usually try to come up with craft ideas and then find the stories/choose the books. Since it was the last day of March, and to go along with her previous theme, "In like a lion" for today it is "out like a lamb." Therefore, the afternoon storytelling and the arts and crafts that went along with it was about lambs and sheep. Theresa read three books about sheep and then we made wooly sheep with the children. The activity was a lot of fun. I helped a little girl around 4 years of age make her sheep. She was so shy that she would not even tell me her name but she was adorable.
At around 4pm, Theresa had her "knitters" set up in one corner of the library. Older children came in to learn how to knit. Theresa supervised and a teenager, Alex, came to help teach the kids. I was tempted to join them but I know that my hands are not as nimble with knitting, needlework, and the likes. Come to think of it, as an Art Historian, I am a lover of art but I cannot produce it. Sad as it may sound, I am okay with it because I can analyze artwork with the best of them. There is that old saying that kind of applies to me..."Those who cannot do, teach" or in my case appreciate, admire and analyze. I can only sit idly in the sidelines and watch as they knitted. Maybe there is hope for me yet and that perhaps someday, I'll gather the courage to pick up knitting needles and start a new hobby.
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