I’d like to meet the person who wrote that primary song and see what fantasy land he/she lives in. A special day? For sure. Today was definitely one special Saturday. I woke up determined to keep my cool and be so sweet to my darling boys as we did our Saturday jobs. Well, that lasted for a few minutes. We cleaned the house and cleaned the house. We (I) washed our clothes and shampooed our hair. I finally got my shower around noon. I even washed the dog. Don’t worry, I didn’t do those things at the same time.
It is difficult to be the only parent home on Saturdays to teach my children how to work. As I work with them - (prod them with a cattle prod) - I think to myself, “I can’t believe I get to do all this without seeing a dang thing!” Those cute boys know how to tell me that a job is completed when it really isn’t. I figure it out after they have left to play. I know all kids do that, but it bugs me that they can stand there and lie and get away with it.
They worked pretty well today. It is usually a lot worse. I hold onto the vacuum with Benji and walk back and forth with him to teach him how to do it. I work along side Christopher so he’ll stay on track. Of course, I have a trash bag and fill it up with junk while they aren’t watching. (I’m not the only one being duped.)
Now I understand why Dad was such a sweetie pie (not) on Saturdays. It is exhausting to get things done and teach children while doing it. I guess it would be easier if both parties worked happily. That’s something to work toward. Maybe next week.
4 comments:
mr. dub does the same thing to me. (teaches me to vacuum, that is.)
I have such fond memories of Saturday mornings. Willie nelson singing Georgia, Someone yelling "Day light in the swamp", or "rise and shout the cougars are out". As much as I preffered to hoot with the owls over soaring wiht the eagles, I am glad that I got to work with dear old dad and mostly learned to work. FHP
Yes, but I got paid to work with Dad!!! Sucker!
I need to be more proactive with them. And realize that a 3 and 5 year really are 3 and 5 years old. And that Emily is 29.
Funny how we hated pulling weeds and dust mopping the playroom (that was a big playroom).I now love to pull weeds and would give anything to have a playroom and a yellow dust mop. Nice job teaching the hellions to work.
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