Saturday, October 25, 2008

Cleaning windows... it's for men.


Today was an absolutely gorgeous day. When the temps are high 60's and the sun is shining and I have nothing on my agenda for the day, I find myself deep cleaning the house. It could be something deep in me that wants to clean or it could be that we have been busy going 6 different directions for the last week and the laundry is flowing out of the hampers onto the floor and the dust bunnies have emerged from under the beds and under the couches that the need for a cleaning day is inevitable. We were all cleaning in some area of the house when Mason said he didn't want to clean inside. I said great, go pull all the flowers out of the flower beds in front. (Just the annuals). He was excited to do this, soon I had Jonah join him. After a while, Jonah came in the house and said, "I'm tired of doing girl jobs Mom." I asked him why working in the dirt was a girls job. He said,"It's gardening, and that's girls work." I sent him back outside to pull 10 more weeds just for saying that. When he returned he asked what he could do that wasn't girls work. I was just starting to clean the inside of the windows, as Jeff had just been on the ladder cleaning the outsides of the windows and I asked Jonah if he wanted to clean windows. He grinned and said sure. So Jonah and Jeff cleaned all the windows, even taking out the windows to make sure both sides were clean.
So there you have it, window cleaning is boys work. Ladies, get your boys and hubbies working for you and get those windows shiny.
I have to say, I don't know were Jonah gets the girls jobs vs. boys jobs from since Jeff will do any job willingly around the house. Maybe he's seen too many sitcoms.

2 comments:

Lara Zierke said...

Didn't you have a freaky "ghost" story on your mission? Drawers banging in the kitchen and you had to have the Mission Pres re-dedicate your apartment? You should write me a comment with that story.

Lara Zierke said...

P.S. Jonah's funny