Another Weekend and More Cleaning!

Recently, I wrote about a new cleaning routine the boys and I are trying. I have a template with a list of the rooms and specific tasks for each room.
So, the system is as follows:

1) One boy picks my chore,
2) the second boy picks his own chore,
3) and the first boy gets the last pick.

I stole this strategy from my childhood when my dad would try to mitigate sibling arguments about which chore to do/restaurant to go to/activity to do/etc. And it seems to work! Instead of doing big rooms, this weekend we were doing bathrooms. Once again, Cassius chose the biggest room for himself, and this time, he first got to choose my task.  Cassius told me to do the smallest bathroom, the powder room on the first floor. Maceo chose to clean the boys' bathroom (the medium sized bathroom), and Cassius got the master bath! (Once again, more floor to mop!)

At first, Maceo was quite sluggish and whiney. But soon, with the addition of music ("Despacito" is the current fave), and a little lecture about how working with a bad attitude not only makes one feel bad, but it also ensures low quality work, we were all having a good time and getting stuff clean!

Washing baseboards!

Scrubbing toilets!!!!!!

Getting the tub clean!!!!!!!!!!!

WIPING DOWN THE SINK!!!!!

Once again, we had a pretty good time, and I was so appreciative of the boys' efforts and spirits! They really can be good boys some of the time!

(Most of the time, really.)