Saturday, February 6, 2010

This went on for 3 hours....

Saturday mornings I give each of my children a little job to do. It could be putting the dishes away or picking things up in the yard. This morning I told Taylor to clean the pool out. I got the equipment all ready for her and told her to get going. That was at 9:00 in the morning. I swear to you she took more time thinking of excuses on why she couldn't do the job, then on the job it's self. She would be outside for 2 minutes then come inside and take a rest, then go outside and piss and moan, the come inside and take a rest. Return outside put the catcher in the pool then stand and cry, then come inside for a rest. It was incredible. It was so funny that all of us stood at the door and laughed at the act. Seriously, it was an Oscar worthy performance.



At, 1:30 she finally came in saying she was done. Shortly after she said " I guess it wasn't that bad". Man, only if she would have convinced herself of that earlier and she would have been done in no time.

3 comments:

@mie said...

Taylor... I feel your pain. It used to take me 3 hours to do the dishes when I was little!!!

Colette said...

So funny... makes me feel like my kids might actually be normal. We have the exact same problems at our house too - the whining takes longer than the job itself. Good thing we don't live on a farm! They'd be whining from dawn til dusk.

Christy Edgel said...

Sounds JUST like my Spencer. How old is Taylor?