threadwalker

I'm still awake. yay! And I'm on my game.

The kids are cleaning up a tremendous mess from this weekend. In some sort of frenzied "I better look at every toy I own", the family room has been trashed.

10 minutes ago I nicely said, "Clean up only as much as you want to keep. Mommy will be happy to throw away the rest."

N surveyed, collected some markers, and said he was done.

E said, "Ok, Mommy, you can throw those away. Those are old toys anyway," and went back to coloring.

Hmm.... Okay. I got the glad trash bag out and pitched the princess tea party set. I started to reach for the doll house furniture.

The gasp from N and the shriek from E were gratifying. They are industriously cleaning up. Bwa-ha-ha!... hee hee hee!

I am beside myself in glee. And, yes, the princess tea party set is on it's way out. It's in the bag and is offically getting pitched. This is a lesson that is meant to stick, not a lesson in "and next I will roll over and let you be in charge because what I say holds no authority". They live in my world, I don't live in theirs.

still snickering...