I'm back!!

My poor sad blog, so sorry I've been away.  I love my blog so much but sometimes it starts to feel like a chore, know what I mean?  I just needed a little break.  I'm going to be skipping around a bit so the best way to keep up would be to enter your email address so you are notified with new posts.

Mason has been asking for a way to earn money.  For months, I've told him that he needs to start doing chores without griping if he wants to get any money.  Well, he said that he really wanted a chart or graph and wanted be able to see the money.  Wants a real payday.  So we came home, got on Pinterest and worked on a Chore Sheet.  Plan in motion.  I can just say, this is day 3 and he wakes up on chore days and makes his bed before he even leaves his room.  :-)  So far, so good.  They have chores 4 days a week (on other days, they just do what I say) and I pay them $2 per day.  

Funny story.  He said he wants to spend $10 a month on his Clash of Clans video game.  I told him that would be over 25% of his entire monthly allowance but whatever, it's his money.  Well, he said he was dying to spend $10 now and could he use some of the money that he already has in his wallet.  I said fine, it's your money.  He downloaded whatever it was, brought me the phone so I could enter a password and then a pop-up came up and said they he wouldn't need a password for purchases for 15 minutes. He gave me a look, I told him that I trusted him to not buy anything else, he gave me his $10 and was on his merry way.  About 30 minutes later he came up to me with tears in his eyes and said that he owes me $5 ... that he'd bought something else.  He began to sob and say that he felt so guilty and would never have been able to sleep that night.  (He's just like me).  I asked him if it was an accident or was he trying to get away with something.  He said, "Mom, I was sorta trying to get away with something."  I told him that I was glad that he told me, that I would've found out anyway and been mad and that we have to be able to trust each other.  Such a good kid.

On the list ... kitchen duty, bathroom clean up, pet care, vacuuming, make bed, math on the ipad, garbage/recycle and a few other.  Bonus money for picking up dog poop.  Yuck.

Kyla loved kitchen duty (for now).  We'll see how long that lasts.  She even went as far as vacuuming the floors.

By the way ... I'm sitting at Starbuck's while typing this and am next to a group of a 6 high school (I'm guessing) girls studying.  Wow, I'd rather sit next to a group of 8 years olds than spend another minute listening to these girls.  And dumb too .... wait, wait ... "What does profit mean?"  "OMG, how many calories is that." "Like how to you know what the percentage is?  I hope my computer can figure that out!"  And it goes on and on.  Time to go now.