With my folks coming back into town later today, I wanted to get all the kids stuff picked up from the common areas of the house. I knew if I just asked the kids, and prompted them, it might get done in 8 hours or so. So, instead I set the timer for a fairly short amount of time and announced that if they had everything cleaned up by the time the timer went off we would go get Blizzards from Dairy Queen. I had given them 15 minutes. They had it done in 5.
I just love it when bribery works that well!
Now for me to keep plugging away at the laundry and my homework and maybe I'll be in a good place when I go to get my folks in a few hours.
In other news...
Hubby and I went to have our taxes done last night. We had anticipated a return no where near as nice as the one last year, where we had the sale of our house to bulk it up a bit.
Boy were we wrong. Our return this year is $1200 more than the one we had last year.
Cool.
We will be paying off one of our cards with this and stuffing the rest into the "Someday" account.
Definitely a highlight of the week.