Mowing For Chocolate
“Daddy, can we please buy this bag of Dove chocolates?”, Sarah asked.
“No, we can’t. But you can, if you have money”, I replied.
Sarah put on her best pout, “But my money is at home.”
“Next time you’ll remember to bring it then.” Mom chimed in.
The banter went on for a few minutes, as Sarah is quite serious when it comes to getting what she wants, especially when it is chocolate. The cost of the bag was close to 5 bucks. Mowing the lawn yields her 5 bucks. Mommy suggested that if we were to succumb to her pleas that she would owe us not a quick and easy 5 bucks from her stash when we got home, but rather equity in her sweat later on in the week.
As I watched Sarah mow the lawn today, I thought of a couple of things, the most poignant of which was “I don’t have to mow the lawn!”. I smiled quite sheepishly at the idea as it sank into my freshly shaven head. (Trish obliged to shear my head once again, as it was becoming a bit too “Chia-pet-ish”).
Another thought I had was just how much Sarah loves her chocolate. I like chocolate. A lot. But there’s something about it that will drive females to go to great lengths to get chocolate in their mouths. I must always remember this newfound leverage! (grinning again!). I think my truck is long overdue for a good cleaning, inside and out. Now there’s something ALL the kids can do to help. What shall I use on the boys for leverage? Usually they will do anything for videogame time, so that’ll probably work. Again.
Here’s to a clean truck by week’s end!
Josh
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Remember that when I was pregnant with Sarah you composed a 9-movement piece with one entitled “Cheese and Chocolate”. That might be where it all started, eh? BTW, have you seen all the foil wrappers littering Sarah’s room? Yikes!
The boys are grounded from video games… Seth until Saturday and Zack at least for one more week after that, but we could pull numbers for the tokens they’ve earned to see if anyone gets the “ungrounded” one. (Just gotta remember to take out the number for Chuck E. Cheese. We still owe them for that from last time.)
All you have to do is ask them to do it. Tell them you’ll give them 3 frogs each. That will work… especially if we say we’re pulling numbers on Sunday.