Psychotomy

So, when I got home, I was told that Pi needed to clean up some before bed.

Then by the time dinner was ready, we were all going to clean after dinner.

Then after bath, b/c kitty really enjoyed the chocolate pancakes :o

At which point we encountered the first bizarre definition of cleaning.  Kitty was hungry and tired, so he wanted to nurse and nap.  So Kiir went to nurse him while I took the other two to clean.  This is fairly standard.  ”We need to clean” generally translates to “You need to clean while Kitty nurses or naps on me”.

Get downstairs, and (issue the second) DK is asking when his Nonnie is coming to visit.  Apparently we really don’t make a big deal of CLEANING unless someone’s coming to visit.  He didn’t quite understand why we were cleaning if she wasn’t visiting.

Then he wanted to wait for mommy before cleaning, because she said we needed to clean so where is she!  I don’t know if he wanted her to help too or wanted her to see him so he got credit.  Either way, he was stalling :o

Issue the third?  Pi doesn’t really help.  And she was tired.

Eventually they were playing throw the pillow and play the drums while I cleaned some to finish the areas we had worked on.  Living room is at least “picked up”, if not actually “clean.”

This weekend “we are going to clean the kitchen!”  Fairly sure I don’t WANT the kids helping, and not sure it’s quite roomy enough for all of us anyway, so I imagine that will be “I’ll watch the kids while you clean the kitchen” :)

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