It's all happening in our house

I've gone on strike! And, to be perfectly honest, I'm quite enjoying it.

For some time I've been trying to get my boys to do more. Work as a team ...

I started small and decided to work on specific tasks. I began with the things that have to be done every day. So, 'please clear the breakfast things and stack them in the dishwasher', 'Please clean your teeth before school without having to be asked', 'Please put your shoes on the shoe rack rather than in the middle of the sitting room'. You get the picture???

It's not that they don't want to help. It's more that they 'forget'. Oh and it has to be fair.

This morning was particularly hopeless.

So I made the decision to do nothing myself. (Instead I've done the proofs of 'The Tycoon's Princess Bride'. I do hope I've not missed anything!) You probably don't need too much of an imagination to picture the reaction in our house this evening when they found everything exactly as they left it and no food for tea. :)

It focussed the mind wonderfully. I've now got all the school uniform washing sitting in the linen basket, the sitting room has been dusted, the dishwasher is on, son number one grated cheese, son two cooked omlettes, son three prepared the salad and son four laid the table. I hope their future wives are very grateful!!!