A Bee for Bashing

The Wheeler blogosphere has been pretty quiet lately, although not due to a lack of goings-on. Up until Friday, Jason was supremely busy preparing for an architectural design review, leaving me to entertain the wee ones from dawn until dusk. When they crashed at night, I happily crashed along with them, usually beating them to dreamland.

Now that his real work is done, Jason has embarked on a new design project in the under-explored medium of paper mache--namely, a pinata bee. The Thanksgiving pinata has become an annual Wheeler tradition ever since the debut of the pink pinata pig. Knowing my husband's commitment to quality artwork, I should have known this wasn't going to be a whip-together project. So far, we've been to three stores searching for the right color crepe paper, and will probably have to go to one more since the shades of yellow don't match. Jason glued together ten pieces of cardstock for the stinger so that it would "have the right taper." We both worked on the project until well after midnight last night, and he was up at 4:00 am gluing crepe paper squares once more. As you can imagine, the girls gladly helped out for a while, but their attention has long since wandered. I'm certain, however, that we'll be able to pique their interest once more when the candy starts spilling out. As for myself, I might start weeping to see our beautiful bee broken to bits. Or better yet, I may be first in line to give it a whack for causing so much trouble...