Yet Another Project . . .

Let me say a word about Leia's "projects." Oh my gosh, this child is project-oriented! Every day it seems she comes home with some new idea that she would like to fashion, whether it be a toucan suit, a Shenandoah Robot, a family of paper birds with moving wings, a family of paper snakes that coil, a new song, a avocado garden, a homemade envelope, a paper pet house with numerous pets, a homemade fence, a new group of colored "tickets," or a dress made from a roll of thin plastic.
Well, today it was paint made from nature. Leia got this idea from a few mulberries she found at school. I told her that I had a mortar & pestle at home, . . . and she was set. As I cleaned the house for Grandma and Grandpa's arrival, Leia Rose collected baggies full of different colored natural items: dandelion flowers, yard strawberries, and leaves. Then she used the mortar and pestle and a bit of water to grind them into paint. But I'm afraid it wasn't long before she became discouraged with this one. She wasn't willing to grind enough of any particular item, . . . and she wasn't willing to grind it fine enough to make true paint, . . . so the result was a kind of colored water that "didn't even show up, Mamma!" So as always, with Leia Rose it seems to be the process that is more important than the actual result, . . . the thrill of making the creation. Once the process is done, the finished product is usually all but discarded. ; )

Then, just for fun, I thought I would go back into Nurture by Nature to see what they said on the subject of ENTJs and their projects: "Because ENTJs are always in need of a challenge, they tend to take on 'projects' that may be too big or too difficult to finish. ENTJs don't see things as they are, but instead see how they want them to be or how they ought to be. But because they have such a clear goal in mind, they typically brush off constructive criticism or words of caution and just plunge in. If they do become overwhelmed with the details of managing such big projects, they may even refuse assistance, because being helped takes away their greatest satisfaction--the pride of doing it on their own." Uh huh. ; )