We have someone coming over tomorrow and Debra asked me to get the house clean while she went to her Bible study tonight. We needed to clean the whole house and not just picking up. The floors were dirty and there was laundry, and a lot of dishes. So I tried something I had never done before.
I made a list.
Ok, I have made lists before. I've even posted about it. However, this time I made a list with all the things that the kids and I needed to do. They can't read yet, but I used a marker to mark off all the tasks as we did them. They had a grand time watching the list turn green as things got marked off. We picked up the whole house, vacuumed all the rooms, did the dishes, washed the floors, and folded and put away the laundry.
They would come in and ask me to show them the list periodically so they could see it getting done. It worked really well. They worked more or less non-stop for over two hours. I did a lot of it, but I wouldn't have come close to getting it all done without them. It was a good evening.
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