What Chores???

Ha ha. I have to laugh at this one... I remember when I was young and at home and learned the meaning of "chores" from Grammy Sumner... (my mom) it was much more of the traditional old home family sort of thing... the inside the house chores were for the girls, the outside "'man" chores were for the boys...
I remember mom always was making something for dinner. We almost always had a family dinner together when Dad would get home. It was pretty regular, and you could tell the day of the week by the dinner. We did fish on Friday's, (from Mom being raised Catholic), Tuesday was beans and cornbread. Sunday was a big dinner full blown "meat and two or three" with an occasional special dessert. Then the clean up would almost always be Mom washing dished and Kathryn and Claudia helping or clearing the table or whatever else needed to be done. Saturdays was another big day for cleaning. the girls would dust, vacuum , sweep (kitchen floor was swept not vacuumed) outside the boys would do all the lawn care, raking, trimming the hedge, shoveling snow, (we lived on a corner had a double wide driveway, (including shoveling several walks for elder church members in town) and anything that ever needed to be worked on that was car related. A number of us children also delivered papers either morning routes or evening routes. This was the childrens' means of earning spending money instead of asking for mom and dad to for spending money. Best I can remember all the children at one time or another did papers. After school delivery M - F, no Sturday, and then early / before church on Sunday morning, the morning routes I think were every day... Then there was the weekly collecting that had to be done every week. (I want my $2.00) And on Saturday getting a ride from dad, or riding our bike to the newspaper office to pay our weekly bill. I think the paper was $0.60 when I first started, and inched up from there in the 4 or 5 years I did papers...

We all had to make our own beds, put our dirty laundry in the hamper, put away clothes once laundered, but Mom did all the laundry, she ironed and we would spend countless hours in the dining room while mom would iron and we would be doing homework and or just listing to her wisdom... it was a grand time to be alive, no worries. Mom didn't work outside home till I was older, then it was mostly to fund her Geneology research and pay for missions and stuff.

You children may have gotten off easy as Della never did the regimented weekly routine. we did a little while in Utah, that was the extent of it. We all had our room assignments; kitchen, bathroom, living room, and all but we all know whoever had living room never did anything, the kitchen was alway getting help from Pop. and we all shared in the outside stuff. but the boys usually did the lawn mowing... ha ha
I guess that will wrap up this post. Hope you children are all doing well, we pray for you all, with teh activity on the blog, being so light, clearly school has started and is keeping you all very busy. That is a good thing. School should be your focus, blog when you can. We'll all be around when there are breaks. Love you all. Study hard! Play hard! :)