Maid for a day!

Here's a funny story from our house this weekend. I made green and red jello. Each child had a bowl of each flavor. I told them they each one got 1 red and 1 green. Well, Nathan, who is 12 and has a bad habit of tuning me out, ate both green ones. When I saw him eating one the second day I asked him if it was a different color than he had the previous day. He said no. Claire was taking her bath at this time. I told him that she was going to be really mad and he would have to deal with her because he didn't listen. Well, the first thing she does when she gets out of the bath is head for her green jello in the fridge. The next few minutes went something like this:

Claire (yelling from the kitchen): Where's my green jello?

Me (pointing to Nathan): He ate it!

Claire (bending down with her hands on her hips and yelling): That was mine! Why did you eat my green jello?

Me (trying to keep her from totally exploding): I'm sorry he ate it. You can pick his punishment.

Claire (rather quickly): He can be my maid!

So, we told Nathan he had to be her maid the entire day on Sunday. Claire loved this! She woke up saying "Where's my maid?" She made him clean her room and play supermarket. Then, he had to make her more green jello. I ran to the store in the evening and when I got back she had him in the kitchen making her pancakes for dinner!


Bossing him around sure came easy to her!


We made him go along with it because he never listens anymore. I'm hoping this will help him remember to pay attention when I tell him something. I'm also guessing that he won't ever eat her jello again!