A spoon full of sugar.

Today was a day of mostly playing catch up.  I didn't do a very good job of cleaning up after ourselves over the weekend, so today I had a bit more to do.  However it was still do able.  It was just really wearing.  I have found that spending a lot of time cleaning up after kids without them helping encourages me to be kind of ornery.  But also positive feedback gets more results than negative feedback does.  I just need to swallow the orneriness (not something that is easy to do), and behave with a positive attitude, and praise the help the kids do give me.