After learning time the kids did their jobs of the week and I detailed how we work that in the post below. I started this system when I found housework was the thing getting attention last this year and it was stressing me out. I then realized I hadn't been having the kids help as much as I should be. We tend to slack off in the summer. Probably because have more time to do the cleaning myself and the house just gets less messy with much of the kids play being outdoors in summer. I should have added a disclaimer that I am not a neat freak and my house is not super clean. I just like things to stay fairly decent, not get to the point where it seems impossible to ever see the floor, furniture and counters again! Maintaining is much easier than overhauling. This years system is just a simpler variation of last years. Now that the children are getting older there are not as many random messes which is nice.
We got outdoors some in the afternoon, there isn't nearly as much creeping and crawling around this time of year. Colin was happy to spot this caterpillar though.
In the afternoon a kids movie was on and Poppy (below) was actually watching it for a long time...and it wasn't an animal movie! It was cute.
Meanwhile Freeze napped on the laundry pile.
Late in the day I went out to take a new leaves on the trees (or lack of) photo and Snowflake the cat was doing his I'm cute so come pat me game.
It worked, he is cute and can always get some attention from me!
Here is what the trees in my side yard are looking like at the moment, getting pretty bare:
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We skipped fall here. We went right from summer to winter in less than a week. One week it was in the low 90s and the next week it was 30 and snowing..... we'll miss all of our nice fall colors this year because of the early snow.. bummer.
Fall seems to have flown by this year. I'm sure it was due to our slow start to summer. I really need to take a closer look at that TOS book.
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