Summer is amazing! I start off by saying this because my kids are home all day. What do they do all day you ask? Well - watch tv, eat, watch a movie, eat, throw dirty clothes on the floor and not in the basket, eat, watch more tv, eat....you get the general picture. This morning all four of the kids were home. Lovely I say. I got up at 4:30 a.m. (when Jeff was making his way out the door to work), I went to the gym, came home to make breakfast, switch laundry over and get ready to go to work. I decided I was going to make a list of chores for each kid to do. It was simple!
Alyx
1. load and start dishwasher
2. bring your clothes up from laundry table and put away
3. clean up after yourself!
Sade
1. unload dishwasher before going to Nana's
2. take laundry downstairs and switch load over
Connor
1. bring clothes up from laundry table and put away (correctly..not just thrown in a drawer)
2. pick up room so I can vacuum when I get home
A.J.
1. same as Connor and pick up after yourself today do not make Sade do it for you
Simple right? At 12:30 p.m. texts between me and Sade (I preface this with the fact I refer to my children sometimes by number of "birth order")
Me- "What's everyone doing?"
Sade - "2 and 4 are in their room playing a game and 1 and 3 are in their room picking up everything"
Me - "Well 2 and 4 better get their sh*t done too or its not gonna be pretty"
Sade - "K. I was trying 2 C if done w/parts but not cooperating/listening"
Me - "Tell them (nicely) if they don't have it done in the next 30 mins I'm gonna call and they will be grounded from the tv & video games"
Sade - "LOL. Nicely? jk"
Me - "Yes, you say nicely - mom said......."
Sade - "LOL okay."
Needless to say my lunch hour was consumed with calling to see if 2 and 4 had done their chores!
FYI - If you ever think about having four kids...come to my house for a couple of hours!
Hahaha, sometimes, it's just easier to use numbers not names. =P
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