Thursday, January 3, 2008

Super Nanny Asks

We watched Super Nanny tonight. The one where the two teenage girls called her because they've been taking care of their three little brothers and doing all the work around the house.

That's like us, but without the little brothers or parents. They made a list of who does what chores. It inspired me.

Makes breakfast: everyone makes their own
Makes lunch: whoever thinks of it makes it for the other two usually
Makes dinner: me if I'm home or Dani and now Alex once a week
Sets the table: Alex
Clears the table: all of the three of us
Cleans up dishes from dinner: me or Danielle or both will wash and dry
Brings in the mail: Alex
Goes to bank: me
Pays bills: me and Aunt Elaine kind of looks over my shoulder
Makes shopping list: me and Aunt Elaine
Goes through Sunday newspaper and cuts out coupons: Alex
Goes food shopping: me or Dani with Alex
Puts groceries away: whoever didn't go shopping of the three of us
Throws out garbage: me or Dani
Puts in new bags: Alex
Makes beds: none of us do
Does laundry: me with help from either Al or Dani
Folds laundry: me with help from as many people as I can find
Cleans all mirrors and the tv: Alex - she likes spraying Windex and asked for that job
Cleans bathroom: me
Dusts: me but not often
Vacuums: we don't have one here so it's never been done yet but Dani used to
Cleans non-carpet floors - one of the three of us a couple of times a week but Alex is not good at it
Cleans out refrigerator: me once a week
Makes ice: Aunt Elaine fills the trays and leaves them on the counter for one of us to put in the freezer for her.
Puts away clean washed dishes: one of the three of us
Takes Alex to school: Dani
Picks Alex up from school: me or Dani
Ironing: me but only like every two months
Washes and puts back on sheets: I put our stuff in the wash and then we all re-make our beds every other week. Aunt Elaine only changes her sheets like every three months or so. Alex can't put her sheet on without help.
Waters the plants: whoever notices they're getting dry

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Sam! Glad to see things are looking back to 'normal'(!?!). It sounds like you are feeling better.
What did you do about the Questions (this means you answer) dilemma?

The best to you and yours in this New Year. Glad to see you all got through the holiday separation ok.