Child Labor

Today we continued our project of converting the office into Rachel's bedroom. As part of that project we bought Rachel a new "princess" bed that was incredibly heavy (I guess because it was made of solid wood) and came in four boxes. Each box came with extra cardboard, padding, and wrapping just to take up space. All three kids were fascinated with all of the boxes and packaging (Rachel especially because she knew this was going to be her new bed). After getting all of the boxes upstairs, I unpacked everything and thought it would be a pain getting rid of all of the packaging.

In a burst of inspiration I looked up and saw three willing faces staring back at me so I put them to work. They eagerly took every scrap of cardboard and wrapping and helped throw them over the banister to the first floor (screaming "bye bye!" along the way). Not wanting to miss out on the action, I joined in by throwing the larger pieces overboard as well.

When we got to done unpacking everything the kids ran downstairs and went back and forth to the side yard with pieces of cardboard. I was surprised at how fast all of the trash disappeared with all these kids around....this can really come in handy (sinister laugh).