Office Space

We need more supplies.

I’ve written before how she has found the junk drawer:

But, her creative streak continues to tear through the house like a wildfire and there’s been a considerable uptick in the usage of office supplies here.

Especially when it comes to adhesive tape.

For example, I found the above on the floor today when I heard something fall from the Christmas tree after the dog brushed by it.

It seems to be an ornament that she made with some magic marker tops ¹ and the empty tape dispenser. Talk about getting the most use out of your roll of tape to have the idea to create tape dispenser gifts: Soon available on Etsy!

You cannot move 3 feet in this house without seeing evidence of the tape consumption habit she has:

Artwork by Mommy. Signage by the child. Clock by China

There’s signs for the bedroom, the family room - you name it. There’s also scraps of paper taped to the walls that are the remnants of a game or idea in her head too.

We have signs everywhere. And this uses a lot of tape. This does not include the prototypes that were made and discarded, or the little pieces of tape that get stuck to the floor.

I’ve got in the habit of when I pop in the dollar store to get a cheap soda to also pick up a few rolls of tape to toss into the never ending abyss known as our junk drawer so my little creative one has enough supplies.

Then there’s the paper. She’s found my stash of office paper and helps herself like I would to a box of donuts when nobody is looking. Today, we gifted her with her own ream of paper.

Before this, 500 sheets of paper would last me oh, months. Now? She can go through it in no time. She took her tape and pens upstairs for a bit and then came down with day 2 of our conference papers where we had to learn math (again!) before we could send her to bed tonight.

And don’t get me started on the Sharpies. We have told her many many times to stay away from them because they make permanent marks and when you create art like she does the studio can be anything and we don’t want to have to Google “how to get sharpie marker off the couch”

Now that all the sharpies have disappeared, she has switched to ball point pens which I suppose are a bit better - but not by much - and then we have no pens in the house, but that’s another problem.

I never thought when having a child that the constant searching for full/working/existing office supplies would be a thing in the house, but here we are.

Signing off while I can still find a pen,

TH and Co.

1. I am assuming the actual markers are lost, or more likely - have travelled through the dog.