all work and no play keeps a clean house! :)

The best 40 bucks I've spent this week was on a nanolite vacuum cleaner by Hoover! The handle has two settings, tall and small. This is fantastic since I'm a huge fan of making my children work hard.

Here is Jolie, who just turned five a couple of weeks ago. Her big smile comes from the fact that she's five and she vacuumed the whole living room by herself! :D

Ever since I became a mom, I wanted to be a really good one. I'm definitely the kind of person who reads the manual to any new gadget or gizmo I buy, and I usually spend a lot of time pushing buttons and figuring things out once I get something new. It hasn't been much different with my children. I feel such a huge responsibility to them to help them turn out the best that they can be.
However, if you have children, when you know that when you pack up their diaper bag for the first time, ready to the leave the hospital, no one hands you a manual! lol. It's a frightening thing to realize that you're going home with this tiny being and you're expected to keep it alive. Sometimes that's all you worry about until they're 5 and you wake up and realize that somehow you birthed a monster! You didn't think about their character when they were 4 months old, instead you worried about diaper rash. lol. You didn't ponder over whether or not your two year old was learning compassion, instead you just wanted to keep those cheerios out of their noses!

I'm thankful that I had several people who showed me great tools, books and gave me lots of advice(some of the advice was actually good. lol). My children are great people to be around and are at this point some of the best people I have ever met. They are still developing and changing and growing, but we're going along the right path!

One of the biggest things I hold dear to good parenting is making your kids work hard. Even if that means buying a new vacuum that they can wield themselves! lol

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