1 cent for 1 weed

When my children were small, they wanted to earn money.  So when I pulled weeds I would pay them 1 cent per weed with a root.  What they soon discovered was that they could pull 100 very small weeds quicker than they could pull 100 larger ones.  This actually worked out pretty well for me.  Pulling the smaller weeds kept them from becoming bigger weeds.  Also it kept smaller children from pulling the tops off of weeds they were too small to pull the roots of.  I just hate trying to pull a weed that had a very small top and a huge root because it's been chopped off previously.

I've discovered this works for most things that have to be done.  Six children and one mom can clean a room pretty quickly if each person only picks up 10 things and puts them away.  Pretty soon they discovered it was faster to pick up 10 pieces of trash and throw them away, or 10 pieces of laundry in front of the washer than a variety of things that I might have to redistribute later myself because it took too long for them to do. 

I am in the midst of sewing Julia a choir dress.  Part of this lesson for me has been.  Yesterday I washed and dried the fabric and read the pattern.  Today I cut out the pieces.  Tomorrow I will sew it together until the point where she can try it on and I can adjust the fit.  Hopefully by Friday we will have a finished dress. 

Just a little here and a little there, it all adds up eventually into a bigger picture. One hundred pennies equals a dollar, etc...  Also every little bit of assistance is appreciated. Something done by someone else is something I don't have to do. Thank you.