cleaning ladies for 60 cents

now that the girls are on a points system and now that they have gotten the pleasures of spending THEIR own money this weekend they are pretty motivated to earn more points throughout the week. today it was time to learn how to clean the house. older HATES the smell of bleach and cleaners that are super cleany smelling so she chose to vacuum while i cleaned the toilets and tubs. younger wiped down the sinks and counters, windexed the glass top tables and then begged to dust. she lost her wii privileges today because she didn't obey yesterday so she was bored beyond BELIEF today. it was a very good learning lesson. and cleaning gave her something to do. it was great. the house looks incredible. i gave each of them 3 points.
earlier this afternoon we went all through town doing the weeks grocery shopping. some ingredients we can't get at the plain old store so we have to add another store to our shopping excursions. they did very well at the store because now that they have their own money to spend they don't need quite so much. so i bought them straws for being so good. best 40 cent "treat" i've gotten ever. then i came home, made vegan chocolate ice cream and then the ice cream freezer wouldn't work. so we took a QUICK trip to walmart only to find out that's a seasonal item so we then ran to ace hardware and finally found one. it's NOT bad actually. but i'm ready to get another week under our belts. we did all of the homework we had today so hopefully this next week won't be full of random homework surprises.