What a chore

Recently I have been thinking that we need to get our little 6 year old on track with some basic chores. I mean, don't get me wrong, she does help out around the house. I just wanted to get something going a little more regularly. Here is the solution. I found this magnetic white board at Staples for like $3 (pen included) and it works great. The boxes get checked off as she does her chores throughout the day. At the end of the day--if she has completely all the chores that are applicable to the day--she gets a check down at the bottom. When all 20 boxes are checked, she gets an awesome reward. Something big and exciting...sounds like the perfect plan to me! Plus, I don't have to take the garbage out anymore.

Collage

One of my good friends--who has a great eye for clever and crafty things--likes to email me vinyl ideas every once in a while. She sent me a link for the cutest halloween collage and I did my best to make something similar. Halfway through the designing, she got an even better idea to make one for thanksgiving too and put it on the back of the halloween collage. A two-fer kind of deal. She and her friend now have one-of-a-kind collage boards because I lost these files in the great computer crash. With a little luck, I can one day get my data recovered and be reunited with these cuties!