I've been trying all week to get the house back into the normal swing of things after my trip to Utah. I've been on the kids about helping out and cleaning up their toys before they start playing with new ones. Well, this afternoon I told them that picking up their own toys helps them to learn responsibility and then I set then set the timer and told them whatever they didn't pick up, I would gladly feed to "Gunny Bag." They promptly picked up the things they were playing with and then moved on to their next play project. A few minutes later Abby came to me with a "special delivery" crafted by the two of them and penned by Brynn, which read....
Letter from Brynn and Abby.
Dear house keeper I am rilly sory to tell you this but we don't chews to be the house keepers.
I had a good laugh. How sad that they think of me as the house keeper. What a boring mom! I need to forget about the clean house and get down and play with them more often.
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ha ha!! that is hilarious! your girls have such intuition! and they are so stinkin creative! i love it and i think you have taught them well. you are a great momma!! i look up to you lots! love ya!
Amy, I am going to go ahead an venture a guess here to say the the only thing that you have to do is a load of dishes anyways...and maybe a load of laundry too... :)
Gunny bag never worked at our house when the kids were little. They just left out the toys they were tired of and Sunday clothes, unliked shoes, etc.. It works a little better now that they are getting older. We don't call it gunny bag though, we say, "too bad you left your pocket knife out all night, son. As you've learned in your 7 years of scouts, that is a very dangerous thing to do. We saved it from your little brothers, you can have it back later.
Works like a charm ...
And your girls are so smart! Snaps to you!
That's funny! I feel like a boring mom aka "housekeeper" sometimes too.
We had a gunny sack when I was little. I literally had nightmares about it at night. But it worked. So funny.
how sweet is that. And yes, I feel like I have a very unglamorous housekeeping job somedays too. The fact that they put it in a letter is hilarious!!!
After six kids I feel like giving up on housework all together, but I know I have to keep at it. Anything that gest done is almost immediately undone and the cycle continues, and continues, and continues...
Don't we all need to get down and play with our kids. But at the same time a clean house makes for a sane mom, at least at my house. That's so cute. Children are perfect for helping us keep perspective.
How funny! I think my kids would have written something like this to me of late, "Dear housekeeper. Did you quit?!" :)
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