Summer Recap: Nightly Chores

Veronica likes to get up-close-and-personal with the dishwasher.
Keeping the house clean is near the top of our priority list (you wouldn't know it if you stopped by, unfortunately). And one big step in the right direction is making sure the girls attend to their nightly kitchen clean-up chores.

There are four different chores on the list: dishes, table, floor and refrigerator. We assign two people to dishes - one to scrub and rinse and the other to load. Both of them are also in charge of unloading the dishwasher, too. All the other jobs are pretty self-explanatory, with the exception of "refrigerator." That person is charged with attending to condiments and drinks before and after the meal.

In order of easiest to hardest, the girls would probably agree that refrigerator is easiest, followed by floor, then table and finally, dishes. We try to rotate the schedule once a week, making sure that no two people have the same job two weeks in a row.

Unlike her sisters, Veronica loves being part of the dish crew.