Raking Leaves

While the kids were off track in Oct/Nov, we went to visit my parents for a couple of days. Its so much fun to visit with, them play games, relax, go shopping etc. Well one day we were in Logan doing some shopping and Brinley and Ashlyn started arguing and fighting I gave them a warning and they continued so I told them they owed me a extra job/chore when we got back to Grandma & Grandpa's house.

Well when we got back I got distracted and had forgotten. They went in the garage and got the rakes and started raking for their job. It made me so proud that I didn't have to enforce - they knew they had to do it and did it.

My parents have a very large yard with ALOT of trees and ALOT of leaves. They were out there for probably 45 minutes - so I went out and helped for a little bit and told them that was enough. They said we want to keep going we want to have a big pile to jump in. So then Jackson went out and Payton and they all started raking and making a big pile. So the punishment turned into a really fun time and a great time for me to get some fun pictures too.

It got dark so we went out the next day and finished bagging the leaves, it ended up being 20 bags of leaves. Ashlyn said to me - Mom, we did service today huh? I said, yes we helped Grandma and Grandpa alot, my dad gave all the kids a dollar and they were soooo excited about that. I was so proud of them for all their hard work and for having such a good attitude.