While I sat in my office shed working the morning away, the hubster made lists of chores for the kids to accomplish on their first official day of summer break – but, they weren’t just any list.  He made them “bargains” – as in, vacuum the kitchen so you can bake bread.  How ingenious to barter with the kidlets!

Our youngest did her work like Speedy Gonzalez because she got to Easy Bake:

The oldest did her vacuuming so she could make these delishious PARTYBROT rolls.  The first photo is of the cookbook where she found the recipe and the second is a photo of her beautiful culinary masterpiece:

I’m not real sure what the son-man accomplished, except I know he got his gear and clothing all set out for his upcoming Boy Scout week of camp.  Then, he got to open some belated birthday gifts from his aunt and grandma:

And finally, the middle daughter did twice as many chores (she’s SURE of that) than the others (right, she had to do her chores PLUS unload the dishwasher – gah) so she got to have an hour on the computer and then watch a baby chick hatch!  The chick was named Juevo Tater – hubby couldn’t decide whether to name it Juan Tater or Huevo Tater so he just combined the two for its own unique spelling:

Obviously, hubby was too busy keeping the kids in line to get anything on HIS list done…..but, there’s always another day!