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How to get a teen to do chores.

Posted on December 29, 2008 | 6 Comments

: Our humorous take on the famous American Gothic painting.

Question: How do you get everyone to get off their lazy asses and do some chores? hmmmm? You say:

“Okay, here’s your options. You can help me clean up dog poop (3 weeks worth)….OR….you can:
Do dishes (dishwasher broken remember?)
Vacuum the whole house OR
Clean the bathroom including…the toilet.

Take your pick…first one to call it, does it.”

Alan, quick on the uptake, says “I call vacuuming!”

Kaylee (confused) “What? Huh? What?”

Shane: “Those are your choices, or you help clean up poop”

Kaylee: “I call dishes!”

Kelsey: (still sleeping but when she wakes up, realizes she’s stuck with the toilet) “So. Not. Fair.”

Shane and I did poop duty. Nasty. As you can see, I tucked my sweats into my socks. May have looked stupid, but hey, it’s better than getting muddy, nasty, fecally, grassy yuck on my pant legs. lol As you can see, we had a laugh.
And last but not least, the two responsible for the shit fest…relaxing the day away.

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Thank God for Unlimited Text Plans

Posted on December 11, 2008 | 13 Comments

Yeah so once we lost our minds and (as a past Christmas gift) put texting on Kaylee’s cell…you know because everybody has texting. And if she jumps off a cliff because her friends do….we’d think that was okay too. (OMG! I’m kidding….don’t call Children and Family Services!)

I got her the 750 text per month plan. In my head I’m thinking…that’s a LOT of messages. There’s no way she can possibly go over that! Plus, we had an agreement that IF she went over, since she was working, she would pay the overage. So how bad could it be?

She went over almost 1400. Messages. Fourteen hun-dred. It was about $140.00. I almost shit my pants when I saw the bill. I called Alltel and talked with a real nice girl there. She offered to put her on an unlimited plan and back date it for me. I had no idea they could do that. Wow~ talk about good (and generous) customer service! I put Kaylee on the phone to thank her because that wiped out the extra $140.00. (Which I was set to actually have HER pay)

When Middle Child got her cell, I put the text (unlimited) on hers too. Apparently that was smart. This evening she informed me that she was ‘sleep texting’ at 3:09am. (She’s a sleep walker, talker, singer, screamer…and now she’s a sleep texter.) A friend asked her this morning, why in the world she was texting him at 3:09am. She had no idea what she was doing. Apparently they were texting in the early evening….she musta been dreaming about it….and the rest is history.