Well, I’m here to eat crow in the most delightful way possible.
A couple days ago I posted a link to a tutorial on how to fold a napkin into a Christmas tree. . . because you know, the holidays aren’t stressful enough without having to fold our napkins into pretty shapes. Yeah, this is not how I am wired. I was going to complain about the perfectionistic tendencies the holiday season tends to bring out, but then decided that there are women who genuinely love this stuff and I wanted to be supportive of them. So I was all, “Ladies, you do you.” and felt good about it.
And then my seven year-old son saw the video.
He said to me, “That looks like origami. I like origami.” He then watched the video a couple times, napkin in hand, and mastered the technique. There are now 15 of these Christmas tree napkins waiting for our family dinner party tomorrow evening.
I just can’t begin to tell you how proud I am of him for figuring this out and how dumb I feel for not even thinking about how much he would love doing something like this. So Ladies, not only should “you do you” but let’s not forget to let our kids do them! We do not have to be the sole possessors of the holiday magic. We can delegate and inspire our little elves to help out even in the areas where we struggle.
My Danny was insistent that I needed to film him doing his own napkin folding in case any other boys wanted to learn. So at his request, (and with my pretty terrible camera work and a brief cameo from his little sister) here you go:
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