Persistence

Every time I attempt to get everybody doing what they should so I'm not the "somebody" who does it all, I think of my mom and the thousands of notes she left around the house over the course of my childhood (i.e. "Laundry fairies do not exist" and "I am not the dish fairy"--I think dish fairies do exist, we just didn't have one.), and the many other strategies and reward systems she used to try to get us to keep our rooms cleaned and pick up our crap.

And every time I attempt a new strategy, despite what I know to be true from watching my mom raise six kids, I am convinced that this will be the technique that works. Forever. My children will be clean, organized, responsible children for the rest of their lives because of this one amazing technique.

So here it is. This month's attempt at creating clean, organized, responsible children before I go back to school next week.

If this doesn't work, I'm going to give the angry fairy notes a try.

(And congratulations to my mom--she won a blue ribbon at the state fair for one of her quilts!)