But it's comfortable!

Ah, the stories my armchair could tell!
 

On the Lord’s errand

I could never figure out why P-day was just a different set of tasks we had to do. 
 

Mind your speech!

We’ve been out less than a week and already we’ve heard those fateful words!
 

Replenishing

I'm certain that we're not the only family that uses the time between Christmas and New Year cleaning and purging. 
 

Sketchbook: Or they may become clean

We usually used the Boy Scout three tub method: soapy water, rinse water, hot rinse. Either that our let the house boy take care of it!
 

Call in the professionals

Which would be cheaper, renting the goats or feeding the youth?
 

Sketchbook: Many hands make light work

I was pondering the Young Women's program the other day, and sketched out a few cartoon ideas. A lot of the ideas had to do with family and service, nice things like that. And then this is one that popped out of my pencil. I'm pretty sure this should stay in the Sketchbook!

Cleanliness is next

Our missionary told us that they spent their Preparation Day doing chores and cleaning the house.  That's a lot of time to spend cleaning a small apartment!

Was it Clorox or Isaiah who said that?

Chalk this one up to personal experience!

Sketchbook: Boredom

Summer vacation

What?! Kids think they deserve some time off?! 

Subtlety

Parents of teenage boys, am I right?

I'm not falling for that one again!

We made a Saturday Chores mixtape that was full of energetic, upbeat songs to try to get the kids going in the morning. Now it's a mixtape of songs that the kids hate. Go figure!

The Land of Desolation

For one of my sons, it's a clean room when we can see a patch of the carpet.

Times and seasons

It seems like all of the trees in my yard decide to shed their leaves on the same day. That's how I know autumn has officially arrived!

A special day

This quote may have come from someone in our house yesterday.

The extra mile effort

It's probably a little late for a Ghostbusters-themed gag, but here it is. 

Layers of history

I showed this to one of my old scouts, and he said it was true.

Lifting the load

Spring cleaning

There was one apartment in our mission where we were tempted to do this. We got permission to take a week off from proselyting just so we could clean it up.*

*For any missionary moms out there, that was the exception rather than the rule!