Priceless

If you know them and how they live, it's no surprise to hear me say I am impressed with our niece and nephews. They have been taught to help at home (kudos to Tracey) and they do (kudos to the kids). 

What I love is being able to witness it firsthand. That was one of the joys of this season. When I go early for Christmas and have a few extra days with them, they go on with their normal way of life and I see things I wouldn't see otherwise.

One of my favorites this year was seeing this:

Zach pushed the empty hamper from the laundry room back to the Master bathroom by himself. (In the middle picture, he waited for someone to help him by removing the gate. After taking a pic, I moved it for him. HA!) 

The only thing that would have been better was if I had acted more quickly and taken a picture of Stephen and Zach working together to take the full hamper from the back of the house to the laundry room. Sadly, this was the best shot of that:

In this picture, Stephen and Zach just finished pushing the hamper into the laundry room. You see the back of Stephen's head over Zach's shoulder. The full hamper is just beyond Stephen.   

Stephen was in front pulling and Zach was behind it pushing. Tracey reported that this is a regular occurrence at their house. (With three loads of laundry to wash each day, praise the Lord for helping hands!)

From the hallway, I heard Tracey invite them to help. She said something like, "I could use some help. Stephen, Zach, will you help me?" I knew well enough that I needed to rush in there to peek at what they were doing. Two seconds later, they were in place and the hamper was moving to the laundry room. Priceless.