A Mom's Paycheck!

As a stay at home mom, sometimes it seems like we don't see a lot of our own "paychecks"! On Saturday, I got one that really warmed my heart. A few days ago we had some friends from the ward over for lunch and the kids made a giant mess in the playroom. It's getting difficult for me to bend over now so I have been avoiding the task of cleaning it all up. I asked Neeley if she would go down and pick up just the fake food stuff all over, thinking that would be a nice start. She ran down without complaint and started singing a busy little tune. Pretty soon she came upstairs and told me she was all done. I thought, ok let's go down and check and we can finish the job together. To my surprise, the entire playroom was perfectly straight. And not just thrown in any old bin but all organized as I would have done it. She even had a little pile of things put together of stuff that didn't belong in the playroom and asked for help taking it upstairs.

Now that was a HUGE paycheck, no complaining, no bending down for me and done in a hurry! I sure love these kinds of "paychecks".
Here's our star now!