Sami's World

I guess it’s been a week since I added any news.   For the benefit of my own journaling, I will add things by day instead of one long entry.   Enjoy!?

We had been planning to spend Saturday cleaning up the front and back yards.   With the weather being what it has been, the yards were really out of control.   Jaime came to me on Friday morning and informed me that she wanted to earn money.   I told her that if she pulled all the weeds from all the rock beds in both the front and back yard, that I would pay her $10.   Now, I am VERY cheap when it comes to paying my children.   This was a big job and I half expected her to either say no, or say yes and 30 minutes later tell me she was all done.   When she heard the words 10 dollars, her eyes lit up.   She got dressed quick and went outside.   I spent the next hour getting all the other kids dressed and ready for the day.   We all went outside to get in the car ( I had a doctors appointment) and she was half done with the first rock bed.   She was reluctant to leave but she did.   As soon as we arrived home from the appointment she went right back to work.   She worked another 2 hours, then we went to the park and when we got home she worked another 2 hours.   She was done with the front yard and 1/3 done with the backyard.

Saturday morning, she dressed first thing, got her Saturday chores done in an hour and was right back outside.   3 hours later she announced that she was done.   Boy was she!   It looked great.   She also swept down the walks and cleaned up her piles of weeds.   Her fingers had cuts on them and she was exhausted, but you could she that she was very pleased with herself.   In the meantime Scott was trimming all the bushes, mowing the lawns and hosing down the outside of the house.   I finished up with the kids inside and then headed out and got all the weeds out of the cracks in the drive way.

Jaime had told us that she wanted to spend her money to buy pizza for dinner.   All the kids did such a good job working that we paid for pizza and then Jaime went to the store to pick out something.   After she paid for her item and took out the money for tithing, she gave Alix her $2 change so that Alix could buy something too.   It was very generous of Jaime.

On Sunday she came to me and asked if her friend Katie could come over and pull weeds.   I asked her why Katie would want to come over and pull weeds.   Jaime said ‘So you can pay her $10 too’!!   I informed Jaime that I was not in the habit of paying other people for things that my children can do!   :0)

All in all it was a very productive Saturday.

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