Fun Filled FHE: Part III

Tonight on my quest to sit and eat bon-bons while my children make the house sparkle I taught the kids to CLEAN THE KITCHEN FLOOR. Seriously. My friend Lisa (whom I admire greatly and want to be like when I grow up -- in ten years) told me that every Saturday when the family is done with their regular weekend chores, every grabs a soapy rag and they clean the kitchen floor. Brilliant. Mopping and Swiffer WetJet just don't get everything. But soapy water, elbow grease and two willing helpers? PERFECT. So I told them we were going to be Cinderella in the "Sing Sweet Nightingale" scene. They had a blast. Sure, the floor was a little more wet than I'd prefer , but it got done. And we'll try again on Saturday. While the girls and I did that, Brian vacuumed the carpet so I could steam clean them after the kids went to bed. I love having Bunco at my house once a year. It forces me to have everything clean AT ONCE, instead of my usual "This week we have a dust free piano, ENJOY!!"

I also taught the girls to clean the floorboards. I hadn't gotten around to showing Joelle how to do it last week. And since they already had wet rags from the doing the floor, it seemed like a natural fit. When it's Joelle's turn again she can do the upstairs.

We did have a spiritual part of the lesson. We toured http://www.lds.org/ and http://www.mormon.org/ and watched the testimonies of the people on there and learned what else we could find on those sites. And we used the Gospel Art Kit to talk about the Atonement, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus.

Then for treats, we made THESE:

Yum. Refrigerated Cookie Dough and mini candy bars. Couldn't be simpler. And so horribly good. And rich. I couldn't eat more than three. I sent most of them to work with Brian today. Because -- I can only eat three AT A TIME, but wait 30 minutes for the carmelly goodness to dissipate and I am ready for more. We tried sugar cookie dough and chocolate chip dough and we put Milky Ways and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups in them. Yum. Do you think those would make a good breakfast?

Oh, and so I can claim to be a good mother who documents this stuff, Jillise lost her third tooth last week (on March 12th). It came out while she was eating Lucky Charms for breakfast (because while I am a good mother who documents this stuff I am NOT a good mother who feeds them healthy cereal for breakfast). Here is her lispy grin: