Bree and Cate’s shared room had recently gotten SO messy that we literally could not walk in there without stepping on something. So I did what any parent would do…and bribed them to clean it.
When Greg got home from work tonight, Bree and Cate excitedly called out to him, “Daddy, we are cleaning our room!”
Greg came up the stairs to look and Cate proudly said, “Look, it’s clean there. And there. And there…” while pointing at a few bare patches where the carpet was starting to peek through.
And Bree said, “Yep, it’s getting skinnier!” (I think she meant the layer of toys and stuff was getting thinner.)