A new adventure!

So, recently we started giving the kids an allowance, if they do their weekly chores, schoolwork, and maintain a good attitude. We wanted them to learn the importance of earning money, and to understand we can't just buy whatever they want, whenever they want.

That has helped alot with the attitudes toward doing chores, and helping in general. However, these last few days /weeks they have stressed to me that the chores are boring. So today, after being rather fed up with the complaints, I decided to do something different. We turned it into a spy adventure, and they each chose a secret agent name-Hannah was Agent Flower Power, and Bubs was Agent Hulk. So first I tasked them to go around the house collecting trash in a bag, to inspect if they found any old notes with clues on them. Then, Hannah burst out saying that "The Evil Dr. Doom is at it again, Mom!" I, of course, responded, " I'm not mom. You have to use my code name."  Hannah then dubbed me "the Queen of Secrets". (lol??) I sent them on a mission to find any bombs (toys) and take them to headquarters (the playroom) to be disarmed.

Next, we got word that the President was coming, so we needed the Secret meeting room (the bedroom) to be spotless for him. After all, we didn't want him to think we were sloppy lazy spies. We got the room cleaned, and then, suddenly, a balled up note was thrown into the bedroom, er, meeting room, and said that Dr. Doom had captured the president and his little dog Coco! We tried to brainstorm another plan, and continued cleaning. While I was in the other room, Dr. Doom squirted poison melty goo all over my face (cleansing face mask) and that he wouldn't change me back till all their chores were done. For some reason this was a real motivator. I made sure they knew it wasn't for real, but it seemed to make the spy adventure more real. Of course, they were almost done anyways, and in about 5 minutes, it all came off, and Doctor Doom ran off to escape another day!. They said they had a blast with it though, and all the chores got done today without any bickering!!!