Saturday Chores in Spring

I had all three kids home yesterday and I put them to work -

1. we cleaned out two refridgerators - the kids pulled all the foods out, I sorted out old leftovers, and washed the interiors, and we put the items away together.

2. we bought 10 geraniums and put them in Bob's flower boxes at his work

3. we weeded all of the front flower garden and edged it, and put down 6 bags of mini nugget mulch on the path.

4. we weeded all of the rear vegetable garden

Many hands make work light. When my oldest complained about doing work yesterday - I asked her if she thought I should do all of it with her siblings, and leave her out of it. She said no, that wouldn't be fair. I asked her if she thought I should do it all myself. She said no. She was perfectly lovely the rest of the day. I was actually ready to let her off the hook if she was not going to help happily - I didn't want the stress of that. She realized her part in it all though, which was really nice.