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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Cleaning out the house

I feel like one of the most done things during summer is for families to clean out their house and have a yard sale. That's what we're attempting to do, we picked out everything that we haven't used recently and we're selling it. I told our kids that if they sell their own things they can have the money, that sparked interest and they decided to go ahead and clean out their rooms a little. When you have nine kids and six of them have August and September birthdays this makes life a little less hectic. As we were pricing things I asked them each what they wanted to buy and Tyson mentioned he wanted to buy a toy for Ryker. Little did I know the toy he wants to buy him is around $100 and Tyson is getting rid of 90% of his toys for it. How many five year olds would do that? As happy as I am that he's trying so hard to get his brother a toy it also kind of breaks my heart that he'd be willing to sell some of his most prized possessions to do so. This is a perfect example though of what we are trying to teach our kids, others before yourself. While my other kids have huge goals of their own to buy with their yard sale money and I am proud of all of them for wanting to save so much for something they will buy on their own, I can't help but feel extra proud of Ty. Anyway, so cleaning is my least favorite thing in the world and I can't wait till we get rid of everything I've realized our house looks worse than when we started! I honestly don't know how people keep their houses clean when they work full time and have kids who play sports. We're normally only home for about 20 minutes per day, but apparently that's all it takes for kids to tear the house apart! Honestly if anyone has any advice about how to handle that, please let me know! Now, it's time for us to leave our house again and go to gymnastics-see never home! Hope everyone has an awesome day!

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