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CHORES!!! Get to work kiddos…or else!!!

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Okay, so hopefully they are somewhat fun for the kids, but I made them chore charts finally–thanks Janina for your tips and my friend Kim for getting me excited about them! So far (I do realize that all new things have a time-limit to how cool they are, but I’ll take it while it lasts!), it has been something that they actually enjoy. Carson will get this big grin on his face (if it’s not the daily ones), and ask, “I’m gonna do a chore?!” HECK YES you are! And Devon has always really liked to help out besides picking up their toys, so it has been great for him too. To make it a little more fun, at the end of the week if they don’t complain (they do get one warning if they start), we are going to do something fun.
I just found a bunch of pictures that went along with the chore so I don’t have to read it to them every day. PS I do love the Pyzam backgrounds, but you lose all your side widgets and I get tired of re-doing them every time. If anyone knows of some great backgrounds that KEEP your widgets on, please please let me know what they are, or even your cute scrapbook-looking things some of you do would be awesome!

PSS I don’t know why this next bit is in humongous letters, but it just wouldn’t stop being big no matter how many times I changed it and saved it and published it, so it’s just a big shout-out of congrats to them anyways I guess!

Congratulations Leeann and Jay!!!
My beautiful cousin Leeann got married last Saturday (pics are only coming now few and far between because my computer is running low on disk space, so I have to be careful until I get another hard drive!). It was a beautiful wedding and lots of fun to see all my extended family.

Hey Leeann, if you see this, did you almost crash into a big white van on Saturday night in Sugarhouse in the dollar theater parking lot? That was my friend driving the van, and I swore it was you guys (plus the Just Married on the back kind of gave me a big fat “yes” to my question on whether or not it was you guys!).

Comments

  1. Yeah, I got frustrated with Pyzam backgrounds for the same reason. Lee lou Blogs (http://leeloublogs.blogspot.com/) makes really cute backgrounds that do not change your side bar (as long as you pick backgrounds that were created after the Feb. 25th post). Also, I found it has been kind of fun to try it yourself (if you have the time) by going to tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com. On the right sidebar they have lots of lessons on how to change your backgrounds and stuff.

  2. I need to start regular chores with my kids too. I’m sick of picking up after their messes! I like the chart. It looks exciting…teach them to enjoy it while they’re young!

  3. This is so funny, because I bought stuff last night at Wal-Mart to make a chore chart for my kids. And then I come to your blog and find you have done a great one and I will be stealing some ideas! I thought I would just do pictures, too . . . and that way they will have a visual on what they are supposed to do.