The Cleaning Game

Happy 4th of July everyone. This morning we played the Cleaning Game. It's not very exciting but the kids get a kick out of it (especially Hannah - Jake usually loses interest). The Cleaning Game goes like this: we write all the names of the rooms on scraps of paper, fold them up, and put them in a bowl. Then I spin one of the kids around, they close their eyes, and draw out a slip of paper. Then we quickly run to whatever room is on the slip of paper and clean it up as fast as we can. Once we finish a room we run back to the kitchen, spin another kid, and draw another room. Believe it or not, the kids are actually convinced this is a fun game. Lincoln then follows behind us and does the nitty gritty like sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming while we move onto the next room. It works pretty well and it gets the house cleaned up fairly quickly on a Saturday morning. With as busy as our lives are and with all the stuff we have going on during the week we don't want to waste our entire weekend cleaning. If you have small kids, I highly recommend you try the cleaning game with them.