Working hard for the money, so hard for it daddy.

We don't always give the kids allowance, in fact we only give it to them when they ask. They know that asking for their allowance means that they must do the work that we tell them to do and it's not easy jobs, which is why they don't ask often in fact we have gone months without being asked. Today both kids asked for their $5.oo and then waited to hear what they had to do to earn it, sometimes it's inside jobs such as vacuuming, dusting, cleaning windows etc. Today was outside work cleaning up pine cones and other stuff from the yard that I had pulled from the flower beds. After about an hour both come up to us and asked if they can stop now and get something to drink....whoops we totally forgot that they were still working, we were busy mowing, cleaning out flower beds. The yard looks good thanks to the kids and I'm glad that they know they have to earn their money. Now if they could just ask for indoor work next time cause that makes for one happy momma when I don't have to clean windows.