Summer Chores...

So we are one full week into summer- our chore chart is going strong and I am loving it. The one thing I've got going for me with all these kiddos is the manpower behind all these little guys. I may have been underestimating them... I wrote out these chores a little skeptical that they would be accomplished within my low standards... or without asking for so much help that it would have been easier for me to just do it myself in the first place... But seriously they are doing really great. For some chores they team up... the boys have one day where they do one load of laundry together (the girls do to, just on a different day) they did a great job, with little reminding that the clothes needed to be moved to the dryer and then folded an hour later. (you know I love you when I take a picture of the inside of my laundry room and post it...holy heck, don't you love all the hanging bathing suits)..

They also team up and take turns emptying the dishwasher every morning.   Other chores include, cleaning their rooms, vacuuming, and cleaning bathrooms.  I have enough little hands that we can split the chores so that they don't take more than 15-20 minutes of their time...

and the payoff for them is this.....

They earn a dollar a day to spend at the snack bar at the pool, there hasn't been one complaint yet!   Kind of a win/win for me as I was hating the snack bar and constantly being asked if they could get junk.. Now they can decide if they want to spend their money on junk or save it for something better.   So as I sit here this Friday afternoon, my house is clean, and I feel brilliant.   Please no one try to burst my bubble and remind me that I am only one week in...  By week 12 of summer I am hoping that we still have no complaints, an empty dishwasher, and clean"ish" bathrooms :)    What can I say, I am delusional an optimist :) 

Hope you all are enjoying Summer!