Chores????

So we decided to try something new this week. We started Monday night and set it up for Family Home Evening and have been going all week. We have started a system of chores. The girls have a few chores that we expect them to do every day. If they finish those chores, then on Saturday, they have the option of doing extra chores to earn spending money. They can earn up to their age in dollars. So after making sure the girls made their beds and cleaned up their toys each day, we all spent Saturday morning working around the house. We had a list of chores they could help with and how much they were worth. After the morning was over we payed the girls and helped them put their 10th in to tithing and another 10th in to savings and the rest into spending. We gave them 3 little jars each (haha, I'll post pictures once I make them cute!) All in all it's worked so far and the kids are actually excited about doing chores! :P
We also went to the spray ground on Momday with a bunch of people from the ward. The kids had a ball and (despite my best attempts at putting sun screen on them) came home sunburned - except Eileen. We also came home exhausted!!! :) Other than that, we kept busy all week and tired ourselves out in the normal ways!

I have decided that I don't like libraries as much when school is out. Friday we went to the library and it was a ZOO and there wasn't even story time this week...think we may have to make a different day our library day...