By the fifth day of cousins, our house was a mess! Especially the pantry that was restuffed every time someone “cleaned”. So as the girls were leaving to shop, my mom offered $10 for whomever wanted to clean the pantry really good. She directed this at Gabe or possibly Spanky, but it was 7-year-old Covey who stepped up. My mom tried to rescind gracefully, but Brett and I encouraged Covey to have his hand at it. And when 6-year-old Scout agreed to help, I matched her offer to him. So we were off, and my mom kept trying to take them off the project, and Brett and I just laughed.
We were gone for several hours, and check out the scene upon our return:
Every possible item of food was out of the pantry and everywhere in the kitchen.
But it was impressive because he had Clorox wiped every shelf in there.
When I asked where Scout was, he told me that Scout decided to not do the job about 10 minutes in.
Likely story.
When I finally came across Scout, I told him he was crazy to not make that kind of money.
He replied with, “I AM making that kind of money. I found a bunch of candy from when Bella gave it to me, and put price tags on them and have been selling them to my sister and cousins.”
He already had $2 from Navy, and was in negotiations with Grant for another $1.
I will admit that he went the path of least resistance.
But I am not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing.
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And as for the pantry….
Only an hour after the picture was taken, that pantry was put back together in a very mish-mashed way, but was way ahead of where it started.
In fact, when Nonnie saw the end result, she was so proud and impressed with Covey, she said that any kid willing to spend their entire day cleaning, definitely deserved $20.
And she handed him a crisp $20 and went to bed a little less stressed than the night before.
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