- mopping the floors--at the Bakery and here at home,
- vaccuuming the house,
- washing the cars,
- doing the dishes on a commercial dishwasher,
- trimming the hedges,
- sweeping the patio,
- pulling weeds,
- laying weed barrier,
- climbing 14ers (really big mountains!)
- fishing,
- rough housing with my children,
- loving on Kiki, and,
- beating me at computer Risk.
I might've forgotten a few things in my list but more would just make me look more like the tyrant I am! Unfortunately, neither Steve nor I have any problem telling other people what to do. We'd love to have your children for a time of slave labor, I mean character-building fun. Honestly! We will miss him but I think his mother is happy to see him, if it is only for a few hours in the car.
I do want to say, however, that he well-represented his parent's hard years of raising him. He was polite, ate what was given him, hard-working, and easy to live with. He never complained when I asked him to do a chore and jumped up right away and did it. Then he would say, "Do you want me to do anything else?"
When my kiddos are older I do hope they are as well respected elsewhere as Jon is in our home. Maybe it's in part due to that Dutch stock!
2 comments:
What a great opportunity you had to get to know your extended family better. We all hope that our children behave as well as Jon when they are teenagers. It is a great encouragement to me to see such a pleasant teenager while I am in the middle of training my children to behave appropriately.
It's definately the Dutch! Their a good lot, if I do say so myself!
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