Whistle While you Work

I can't believe that I put this off for so long. Between Aaron and my childhoods, we just couldn't agree on a game plan for chores and frankly I was too lazy to let me kids clean, because it was so much faster and easier to do it myself at night.

Anyway, I had already decided that we would start on Saturday - and then at Enrichment night learned even more tricks and suggestions to help, so I was prepared. We normally would get up and clean first thing on Saturday, but since we went to the circus we just thought we would post-pone for this week. Not so. The kids had already seen the chore charts and were so excited to actually clean that despite how tired we all were - as soon as we got home the kids wanted to clean.

For a long time Dominick has loved to clean the toilet and bathtub, but I always hesitated (which was stupid, I know). So, he wanted those and others. Each one gets to pick 5 chores and we help supervise and assist when needed (and finish or correct later if required). The really great thing was, that our kids are awesome cleaners - and were upset when the chores were done and they didn't have any left (even bringing Kambree to tears wanting to do more:).

Here are some pictures of the very successful first chore day and let's hope for many many more successful day's to come!