Gross Life Skills

Like everyone else, our kids are doing school at home which means a little more free time for my kids since all the extra-curriculars have been cancelled. My life, however, has gotten a lot busier because my youngest child needs a lot of supervision and help with her schoolwork. I've given up on the family history class I was auditing because I just don't have much time to myself to work on the assignments. Plus the teacher wasn't grading them anyway...but that's a different subject.

A little cup pong ball

Talmage's sculpture project: make a figurine with found objects

Anyway, one mom I know has been keeping her kids a little busier by giving them lessons in things you need to be able to do in your adult life, aka life skills. Lessons she mentioned were cleaning the refrigerator, addressing envelopes, and cleaning the car inside and out. I'm all about teaching my kids life skills but I've been having trouble fitting that into my schedule with all the schoolwork. So today I thought, we'll do it at night when Scott is home to help!

So tonight's life skill was cleaning out the sink drain! You know how the sink drain can slow down when too much gunk builds up. My husband doesn't like to use the highly toxic chemicals to clean it out so this is the disgusting organic method. And it truly is gross.

The Post-Life Skills Treat

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