Makes My Monday

I don't know exactly what it was--something about the kids being excited about the three-day-weekend and us being lazy because we have a three-day-weekend--but by Saturday evening our house was a total and complete wreck.

Toys were strewn all over the playroom, living room, and all common areas. Any toys with small parts are generally kept in boxes, and several of those boxes were laying empty in the living room with hundreds of those itty bitty pieces scattered not only in that room, but several others. You couldn't walk around the house in bare feet without endangering yourself.

Sunday morning, while Cort and I were still in bed, Will came upstairs and asked us to get down yet another box-full-of-small-items toy. I told him he needed to put something away before he could get anything new out. He said there was too much for him to clean up. I thought he had a point. Cort piped in and asked Joe and Charlie to go downstairs and help him. I expected protests.

Instead, the three boys went downstairs. Helen joined them, and the four kids spent 20-30 minutes cleaning up.

And they cleaned it all up. The place was spotless.

And all of this occurred while Cort and I stayed in bed and continued to sleep.

I cannot adequately express how unbelievably impressed I was.

So all I can say is: This really makes my Monday.