luvsJack
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2007
I wouldn’t cancel any kind of short or long vacation for undone chores. Disney or otherwise.
Like others have said, chores will be there everyday. Family time not so much.
But doing chores at our house was always more of a team effort. Daily chores were done in the afternoon when I got home from work. “Ok guys, while I am cooking supper, I need you to feed the dogs, you take out the trash, you set the table”. Or whatever the chores were. After supper, everyone pitched in to clean the kitchen. Then we could all sit down and relax together.
Saturday morning all the chores were divided up and once every thing was done, we watched a movie or had an outing or whatever. They never gave me a lot of grief about it, I guess because we were all doing work. When they got old enough to mow the yard, dh would be out there with them picking up limbs or whatever.
When the boys were young teens, they would home or somewhere in the vicinity of home all day while I was at work. They had their chore list. Problem was they had very different ideas on how to get it done. One wanted to get up and get it all done and be finished for the day. The other wanted to wait until an hour before I got home and rush to get it all done. . So I learned quickly not to let their chores be dependent on each other. Like one couldn’t do the wash and the other fold the clothes. So one would have the wash from washing the clothes to putting them away. And the other would have something else to do. That way I knew who was getting their stuff done and one wasn’t holding up the other. But even then, punishment for not doing the work was that he had to do it when I got home. That was when plans may get cancelled. Well it happened twice.
Like others have said, chores will be there everyday. Family time not so much.
But doing chores at our house was always more of a team effort. Daily chores were done in the afternoon when I got home from work. “Ok guys, while I am cooking supper, I need you to feed the dogs, you take out the trash, you set the table”. Or whatever the chores were. After supper, everyone pitched in to clean the kitchen. Then we could all sit down and relax together.
Saturday morning all the chores were divided up and once every thing was done, we watched a movie or had an outing or whatever. They never gave me a lot of grief about it, I guess because we were all doing work. When they got old enough to mow the yard, dh would be out there with them picking up limbs or whatever.
When the boys were young teens, they would home or somewhere in the vicinity of home all day while I was at work. They had their chore list. Problem was they had very different ideas on how to get it done. One wanted to get up and get it all done and be finished for the day. The other wanted to wait until an hour before I got home and rush to get it all done. . So I learned quickly not to let their chores be dependent on each other. Like one couldn’t do the wash and the other fold the clothes. So one would have the wash from washing the clothes to putting them away. And the other would have something else to do. That way I knew who was getting their stuff done and one wasn’t holding up the other. But even then, punishment for not doing the work was that he had to do it when I got home. That was when plans may get cancelled. Well it happened twice.