Divide and Conquer

I don't know how it works at your house, but at our house, the ideal evening routine goes something like this:

Mom gets kids bathed and in jammies before dinner.
Dad gets home.
Dinner.

Divide and Conquer: One parent cleans up dinner while the other parent helps with bedtime routines and upstairs pick-up.

Kids are in bed by 8:00 and house is returned to a somewhat less-chaotic state.

Tonight Joe chose clean-up. I hollered throughout the house that it was time for family prayer. (Sometimes it takes a few hollers.) Ammon, Grant, and Mom and Dad were waiting on the two stragglers, and Dad rubbed his tired eyes and said, "My eyeballs are falling out." Grant looked up with a mixture of wonder and concern and said, "Can I see?"


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More celebrating:

*I got this bike!!

*I can ride it!! (It's been at least 17 years.)

awkward family photos

The other day I was in the kitchen and I heard Joe laughing hysterically. I kept asking what was so funny, and finally I went to find out what the hilarity was all about.

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

They were funny, but not that funny.

Anyway, I was looking through our pictures while waiting for Joe to finish up some work, and decided we had some of our own awkward photos.

(from the girls' camp fundraiser)

"Where's the real one?" you ask.

They all look like this. :)

Which one would you vote for?

Madison tells it like it really is:

"My house has six people.
It smells like (disgusting) trash and (yucky) diapers.
It looks giant."

or

"My house smells like trash and dirty diapers."

Which one do you like better?

When I laughed and put this on here Madison got very upset and said (and I quote), "Don't laugh. Those are good describing words."

Yes, Madison, yes they are.

Maybe I should rethink the WalMart-brand of scentsy.

To Joe

You are tricky.