Today I am grateful for helpful kids and productive school projects. My kids were remarkably helpful today. I'm not saying there wasn't any fighting, making messes, or yelling. But the helpfulness outweighed all of that. First of all the healthy ones, Lily, Emma, Mary, and Kate all got up and got themselves ready for church way before their ride got here. (John is out of town and I had to stay home with the sick ones.) Yay for them! And Lily was the first one ready. What a good 4 year old.
Second, when everyone was home from church, we had a choose your own lunch (a family tradition that the kids love where one person goes around and "takes orders" and each person gets to order one, easy-to-make, item for everyone for lunch). They all were helpful and cooperative. Lily took orders and Kate and Mary filled them, with a little help from me.
Third, Kate offered to make dinner because she has to do it twice for school--finally a school project I can get behind!! She wanted to make hot dogs and macaroni and cheese, crowd favorites both. I agreed and really only helped her with verbal cues when she was doing it. She did a great job. And her teacher told her that part of completing the assignment was cleaning up and doing the dishes, so she loaded the dishwasher and cleaned the kitchen too. I loved it! She also told me that she has to do a cleaning project for school and I suggested that she load the dishwasher once a day while her dad's gone (usually he does it). She agreed enthusiastically and I was overjoyed because I was going to make her do it anyway but now she's happy about it.
Fourth, again for her school project, Kate had to make up a game and teach it to her siblings. She decided to do "Cleaning UNO". The rules were pretty much the same as UNO, but when anyone got a SKIP or a WILD card, they had to clean up 10 things for each card. The little girls loved it and now their room is mostly clean. Kate could have chosen anything, but she chose to choose something that would help make our house better. What a good kid!
Lastly, the kids helped clean other rooms while Kate was doing dinner, they let me take a nap this afternoon, and they were good for Kate while I went visiting teaching. They were all so helpful. And they all read scriptures with me and Mary even read me part of our mother-daughter book-club book while I was feeding the baby. It was a great day and I'm really grateful for my kids and that they like me and each other. They were so good that I even gave the baby a bath, which is monumental (usually John does it because I hate giving babies baths). Great day, great kids. Lots of blessings!
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