Monday, June 15, 2009

SO helpful

The other day I was reminded of something that I find fascinating - my kids are really helpful.... after 8:45 pm. All of a sudden, they are willing to do pretty much whatever I tell them - empty the dishwasher, take out the trash, help me with cooking - they pretty much agreed to whatever I asked them to do the other day! Of course, I have to deal with them being a little cranky the next day, but I think it might be worth it :)

On the subject of jobs, we have found a job that Lauren really likes to do. She likes to get us the empty trash bags. So now any time we empty the trash (which lately seems like a lot), we just tell her to go out to the garage and get us a new one and she stops whatever she is doing and gets on it. Too bad she isn't the one taking the trash out, because then, instead of me, she would have been the one who took the trash out and saw this:

Her eyes glowed just like that. It was pretty late (they are nocturnal animals after all), and I wasn't thrilled. We found her and her babies in our back fence a couple of weeks ago, but we thought she moved on. I guess not.

5 comments:

diane said...

I gotta say, the glowing eyes freak me out!

I guess maybe your girls are nocturnal as well. Do their eyes glow like that too?

lisset said...

funny. ethan does the exact same thing. bring up the "b" word (in this case, bedtime) and all of the sudden he'll do just about anything to get out of it including turning into a cuddle bug. the little manipulator...

jessica said...

When you find a good place to live you have to stay...especially if your a raccoon!

Emily said...

Scary, racoons are mean. I ran into a couple at our apartment, freaky!!

Maren said...

That could have been the one we found mating on our back yard! How nice of them to stay in the area, I always thought these were very family friendly neighborhoods!