Our Family Project

There's nothing quite like having a friend stop by to drop something off ... only to have them ask to use my bathroom, then have to walk through my cluttered and messy house to get there.  Let's just say that seeing my house through someone else's eyes really gets me into the cleaning mode.  First thing I did after my friend left?  Wipe down the toilet seat.  Yuck!  So embarrassing.

It's Adam's turn to clean the kitchen this week.  Inevitably that means unloading the dishwasher.  Check out his efficiency!  I can just hear the wheels in his brain going .... "Let's see.  Open all the doors.  Pull out all the drawers.  Take everything out of the dishwasher and put away.  Do a spin kick to push the drawers in.  And hit those doors closed.  Done and Done!" He literally spun and kicked the drawers in, it was quite hilarious.  So glad I have such a unique child.

After years of trying to figure out how to "help" my children to do their chores, I finally have come up with a way to do it! Each week they draw their chores out of a jar, and we write down which chores they are to do for the following week. Then, during the week when I need them to do their chores (i.e. unload the dishwasher), I remind them and if they don't do it, their computer time is taken away. Works like a charm! Who knew?