Family Clean

 

Every weekend we have scheduled a family clean, where everyone has a job and we all do them at the same time.  Zibbi has found that she adores dusting, and the instant satisfaction of seeing the dresser cleaner.  (I have included a photo she took to document the arrangement that she created that I liked.) She also enjoys cleaning the toilet (only the upstairs, aqua toilet, however, never the harder to clean, lime stained downstairs one.  I can't say I blame her for her choice).  I think her enjoyment comes from a pretty sweet toilet wand.  Benja prefers vacuuming (he has the height for it, where the girls do not).  Lotta loves to have a meltdown every time before we begin, to illustrate her dissatisfaction with the whole system.  So we allot time for the weekly melt down before we begin.  The greatest gift from the whole thing is feeling as if we are working on something together, as a family.  And the feeling that I am sending them out into the world with some life skills.  Arguably, the most important of life skills, janitorial (maybe along with cooking skills).