The Burrup way

I have to be real quick so I can go do my chores...or really it's prepare my talk but still considered a chore.

Coming from a big family we were not given individual chores but all required to participate together.  And my mom required her house to be clean and organized while my dad required a beautiful yard.  And they had the man power so why not.  I used to say that my mom had 7 kids so that she had people to clean her house.  Not a very gracious thing to say.  Childish, perhaps.

But I hated pulling weeds every Saturday morning while the neighbor kids started out on their bikes or to play ball.  One way out of it was to complain about allergies only to be sent it to clean house with my mom.  So our only real way out was to do a good job the first time.  My dad came around and checked our work before dismissing us.

Now I despise doing the dishes.  But like my mom I need a clean and organized home to function properly so I make sure that, like Nelleen, I clean as I go.  That is probably the only reason Jared and I do not enjoy making beautiful culinary masterpieces together.  But just like pulling weeds, I've learned that the only way out of chores is to do them and be done with it.  Well, I do have one trick.  If I'm really desperate, I ask Jared to do it and he is such a sweetheart that he does it.

Erin