Can Crafty Ideas be a Dangerous Thing????

Due to my job, Twitter, Facebook, SnapChat, etc., are off limits but Pinterest?  Can crafty ideas be a dangerous thing?

I don't know if it is because I am in my forties now or the fact that I see these idyllic young mothers who stay home with their children and still manage to look put together and have time to be crafty, that I have decided that maybe I need to up my crafty game.

My children are teenagers and are not impressed with this whole "crafty mom" aspect.  In fact, my daughter reminded me that Pinterest is more than crafts.  I decided to investigate this phenomena---more than crafts.  What I discovered added to the time sucking that I had already given to Pinterest; now I have to care about how I can braid my hair and how to make a slutty-cut-out shirt from an old t-shirt?

Growing up, we didn't really craft at my house.  My mother was a Girl Scout leader and that seemed to fill our quota of crafting.  In fact, my mother didn't start quilting till after her children had left the house.  (Apparently, my mother knew how to sew before I was conceived and took a few years off!?)  My mother also worked outside the home.  I grew up never questioning the fact that I was going to work and be a mother.

I am not dissing (hip word choice?) the young mothers that stay home with their children; this is the hardest and yet most admired of jobs. I am not saying that if I stayed home with my children, I probably wouldn't shower each day and I would slop around in my sweats---well, I guess I am saying that.  I don't believe that I could get up each day, make myself into the representation I want society to see of me and still have time to create cute pallet signs, burlap monogrammed place-mats, and picture collages of my children.  I don't think I would have the energy to research Home Schooling options because the public schools have gone to hell--literally.

Am I weak because of this?  Perhaps, I will do the things I know I can do.  I will be the mother I am and pray my children do not need therapy as adults.  I will go to work everyday and continue the work ethic that my mother instilled in me.  I will pay my taxes. I will vote so the public schools receive funding and good teachers.  I will pray.  I will pray.  And, occasionally, when I need to suck up some time, go to Pinterest.