Just Beat It

Even the most determined sightseers must pause occasionally to attend to domestic chores--in our case, homework, housecleaning, laundry and some shopping. The chore to which the girls were introduced today was rug beating. Far from thinking this was an awful task, they vied for a turn with the push broom to beat the dust from the carpet. For Olivia, it was an opportunity to take out some aggression--probably held over from her frustration with having to do multiplication story problems. In the end, all three girls did a good job with rug beating. They are available to be hired out when we come home! Not so much their Mom, who seized the opportunity of having three little girls outside to give the floor a needed scrub. Hey, Honey, if you're reading this, you're as sexy when you clean as when you draft legal documents and write wine columns!