Megan's ChoresOver the last year, Megan has watched her brothers go about their daily chores. Feeling left out, she has appointed herself to several areas of the house to help out as well. Like her brothers she makes her bed every morning, but in reverse. All blankets must come out of the crib and be laid on the floor.
Each morning as the boys brush their teeth, she makes sure the toilet paper is unrolled at least 6 feet and strewn randomly around the bathroom. Her other bathroom duties include putting all towels, dirty laundry, shampoo bottles, brushes and toys in the bathtub.
During breakfast, she washes her own highchair by shaking her cup over the tray. This gets it wet enough to scrub clean with her arms.
She agrees with the way diapers are stored, but since the wet wipes are often too wet, she will get them out and place them around the living room to dry off a little bit.
Throughout the day she tests each and every door to make sure it is hung correctly by opening and closing it several times in a row. When she�s satisfied that it is properly balanced, she slams it shut to be sure the latches are working correctly.
Helping with laundry is one of her favorite chores. Dirty laundry should be sorted into two loads, her blankies and everything else. Clean, warm laundry fresh from the dryer needs to be flattened by laying on it for several minutes. Folded laundry should immediately be dumped out of the basket and the basket tested for cracks or weaknesses. Once the basket has been given the a-okay, laundry may be thrown back in.
Megan has many responsibilities in the kitchen as well. Pots and pans must be taken out of the cupboard and dropped, beat on and spit on to be sure they are in good working order. The garbage should be emptied daily either by tipping it over or pulling individual items out, and all toys not being played with should promptly be put in. Since she wants no praise for her hard work, she does this when I am not looking.
Every button on the phone and remote controls must be pressed at least one time weekly to be sure they all work.
Megan also helps out with the budget. She brings the checkbook into the living room and makes sure it�s balanced and all transactions recorded with green marker on the living room carpet.
All scraps of paper and newspapers should be tasted to be sure it is not flavored paper. Once it has been determined that the now wet paper scrap is indeed regular paper, it must be ground into the carpet.
Pokemon cards should always be bent in half to fit them between the couch cushions better.
All toys need to be tested as to whether or not they are choking hazards. Megan has taken it upon herself to search all corners of the house looking for such hazards. When she finds one, she will properly test it by putting it in her mouth. If it could be a choking hazard, she cries for the babies who may choke on it as I put it up. What a caring little person.
There are many jobs that only need to be done occasionally. Checking to see that the ribbon in the cassette tape is of a good length is one of these occasional chores. This is done by pulling the ribbon out as far as possible to see if it can reach across the room. This job used to be Bryan�s. He was reluctant to hand it over to her since he always could get better results as he was able to get the ribbon out further. Another job done occasionally is to pick tomatoes while Mommy weeds the garden.
To our amazement, she has yet to ask to be compensated for her hard work around the house. I believe she will remind us of this in 2018 when she wants that new sports car�
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