With five years of motherhood under her belt,Eva Mendeshas learned a few genius mom hacks along the way.
“We have art everywhere, as far as tools and utensils. We have paper everywhere,” said Mendes, 45, of her home life with Amada, Esmeralda and their dad: Mendes’ longtime beauRyan Gosling.
As with most young children into drawing, painting and the like, their activity of choice can create quite the mess. But the mother of two has it covered.
“The other day, I just put paper all over the floor — I taped it with painters tape, so the whole floor was like a big canvas of paper,” she recalled. “They were just like, ‘Yes!’ … It’s really fun!”
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The Other Guys actress has talked in the recent past about her daughters’ love for art — and she’s a big fan of letting them play around, even if it means their clothes get dirty in the process.
“They’re at fun ages, but they’re still just babies,” Mendestold PEOPLE in March. “We go through a few outfits a day, again, just because of all the fun stuff — we made some homemade Play-Doh the other day.”
“I really let them explore, whether it’s out in the garden or even in our own kitchen,” she added of her daughters. “I give them a lot of thingsso they can have sensory play. So they’re constantly getting dirty, which is great and which is how it should be.”
However, “Now that we’re getting out of the toddler phase, I’mexcited to not wear paint all over me, or food all over me,” she told PEOPLE in September. “But we still have a 3-year-old.”
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In the meantime, theHitchactress is keeping her eyes peeled for “that special project” now that her daughters are getting older.
“They’restarting school and soI’m feeling like I finally have a little time to myself. But also, I’m starting to find that ambition again that I lost a little bit,” she told PEOPLE on Thursday. “I was fine with losing it, it was a natural thing, but it transferred — the ambition was in the home.”
“I’mstill in the home, but I’m gettingmore of that call to work again,” Mendes shared. “That’s exciting because it’s happening naturally. It’s exciting to feel that again.”
source: people.com
