Weekly Chores
Weekly house cleaning - a job that usually falls on mom's shoulders. But feel that the kid's can help make this process easier for all of us. I think it's one of those life skills that we should be helping our children learn I have a list of about 20 different things that need to be done around our house on a weekly basis - everything from...
The Debate: Paying Your Children to Do Chores
The debate this week will cover the topic of paying your children to do chores around your house. Photo: David Reber's Hammer Photography The premise: Children should be compensated for working in the house. This could be in terms of $X per item completed or on an hourly basis. My position: I don't believe that children should be paid to...
Daily Chores
[caption id="attachment_302" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="photo by HiltonLange"][/caption] I'm running a poll on my blog this week: "You Your Children do chores around the house?" Please take a minute to take the poll - let me know what you think. I'm going to write a series of posts about chores over the next couple of weeks. With...
I Have a NEW Washing Machine!
I have a new washing machine. I have never been this excited about an appliance before! It is a front load (so it's energy efficient, which makes my middle DD very happy!). My old washing machine was starting to leak so we got to go shopping for a new machine! In the past we would get the cheapest machine on the market and "get by". This time we...
Video: Kittens on Vacuum
So for this week's video moment, I was a little stumped of what to post. When I came back to my computer, one of our kittens was sitting next to it so I thought I would search for a video about kittens. Did you know that there are 175,000 kitten videos on YouTube? I liked this one because I wish my kittens/cats would respond to our vacuum the same...
15 Minutes at a Time…
Last week was one of those "weeks". Very little cleaning took place in my house. I had meetings every night and my days were focused on various Girl Scout projects. Everybody was fed and clothed so I guess it wasn't a total loss! But now I'm starting a new week and I feel SO behind! One of my favorite websites/people on the Internet is Flylady...
