Yep, thats exactly my point, JSmaz! Some of us learn our patience by loving what we work on. I don't have kids but I feel like maybe you can compare it there too. Sometimes you just don't have the patience for their antics but you deal with it because you love them and patience grows from that.
My mom is the same way, she is a BIG knitter. She has closets...yes, CLOSETS of yarn. I am always getting after her about all the storage in the house having yarn in them and she says that her hobby just happens to take up more space than my many little beads. LOL...we both have a guilty passion for our hobbies. 
"...but love grows deeper and stronger when we have both the wisdom to say what must be said and the wisdom to know what never needs to be put into words." ~ From: False Memory by Dean Koontz