cleaned the upstairs bathroom--Rose did the sinks and toilet. I did the floor. David was going to do the floor but got distracted by the cousins coming home. Yeah the cousins!

cleaned the downstairs bathroom--David spritzed everything and scrubbed the toilet. I wiped. Neither of them are going to win the cleanliness award, but they desperately needed doing.

took out the recycling and yard waste--me.

unloaded the dishwasher--me

reloaded the dishwasher--me and John

unloaded the dishwasher--me

reloaded the dishwasher--me

did the dishes--John

washed all the laundry--John

went shopping--John He was going to take the kids, but Rose was reading her book, and David got distracted by the gardening.

helped the gardener, Tina, cut back the dying hostas--Rose, Miriam, Ariana, and David

gardened for 2.5 hours (whoa, Nelly)--me and David.

What's sad is you could walk into our house and see the pens scattered across the floor, the papers with 100, 107, 102 written in big numbers, the tea cups still on the table from breakfast, the piles of dress up clothes crammed into a corner and have no idea we'd put in any effort. We now have cheese in the house and four bags of yard waste outside. That's our proof.