Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Life lessons... hopefully learned!

My girls are in for a treat! Their first life lesson is slowly and I mean very slowly being learned.
Life lesson number 1: 
nobody wants to clean up after you

I am feeling tired, exhausted really, grumpy and emotional! 18 weeks pregnant, feeling like 30 weeks pregnant, probably due to getting every possible pregnancy complication you can count! More on that to come.
So after spending what feels like hours constantly cleaning up my kids clothes, shoes, toys, dress ups, food, barbies, crap, crap and more crap, I have decided I'm done cleaning it up! So...
I went through their closet and took out about 99% of their toys. They are now hiding in the farthest part of their closet! We had a long talk about cleaning up your own mess cuz Mom's tired of doing it all day everyday, and its practically killing me and my unborn baby to be!
Garrett's idea was great, give them 5 minutes at night before bath time to clean up, whats left on the ground gets taken away. I am not to say anything just take the toys and add them to the other toys hiding out in the closet. They will either lose all toys or they can earn toys back if they clean up REALLY well.
I sat them both down and gave them this lecture they may not have fully understood!!!, but seemed to get the jist of! And tonight, FINALLY my house is clean and totally picked up. The girls room is spotless and Ciella especially, is panicked just thinking about losing more toys! 
Hopefully this life lesson isn't forgotten by the morning!

6 comments:

RaCHeL said...

Congrats on the pregnancy! That's so exciting! When are you due? Do you know what you are having yet?

Kelly Krew said...

WOW! That is awesome! I am soo happy for you guys!

Cram Family said...

Congrats to you guys! I saw it on facebook yesterday and thought it was so neat!! 3 Girls wow Garrett is totally in for it in the teenage years!!! Hope you are doing good!

Sue said...

Love your family picture! Congrats on expecting, hope all is well!

Sue Ashead

abbyjane said...

garrett is a freaking GENIUS!

Rachel said...

LOVE this idea. Way to go, Garrett! Congrats on your baby! We have three girls in my family, and we are SO close. Sisters are the best!!