Working Hard for the Money

What's in that canteen you ask? Acorns of course! Last night while I was on the phone, Hillary and Natalie were frantically searching the house for a bucket to collect acorns. Since Mom was completely ignoring themdeep in conversation, they managed to find this water jug and slip outside while Daddy was out there. In the back of my mind I'm thinking, "I know I asked Jay a few weeks ago to rake this one little section of the yard that is filled with acorns, but he really wouldn't pick them up one by one - would he?" Thank God no, although it wouldn't have shocked me. Apparently at the birthday party, Uncle Derek, who is an avid hunter, realized that we have a specific type of acorn in our yard that he'd like to hunt with. Still don't know if I'm getting all that right because this is coming from two four year olds. Two very money-hungry four year olds. Because really, do the twins pick up or clean unless there is incentive? Usually not. In Hillary and Natalie's words, "Uncle Derek will give us 20 bucks to fill up a bucket with acorns." I was laughing and laughing because they seriously do not forget a thing. And also because the water jug was just not enough. They wanted to gather more, more, more! Pretty soon we'll have the whole Maxwell family out there picking acorns and we can quit our jobs. Ya know, live off the land?

Uncle Derek are you reading this? Pay up - Natalie means business!