Pocket money

Let's call it a mixed blessing-230,000 lei (about $7.50) given to Romanian children who are enrolled in school. Ok, ok I guess it's a good thing that our kids are learning about money at a young age, and it's great that they are learning about tithing and saving and even about earning. 10% goes to church, about 40% goes into savings (for bigger purchases later on, bought only with permission from me and their person of reference), 20% is able to be earned by doing jobs around the house and the rest is the pocket money they can use for whatever and whenever.

My favorite is the money the kids can earn because they are developing a work ethic they never had before...and of course Casa Ana is looking cleaner than it ever has. A few Saturdays ago I had barely walked in the door when they were asking for jobs to do to earn money.

Apparently the doors were dirty, so Claudia climbed up on a stool to get the parts she couldn't reach. She also worked on scrubbing marks off the walls, and was such a hard worker and would call me over every few minutes to ask where else she needed to scrub.

Elis cleaned the windows inside and out and had a great attitude when I pointed out the streaks.

I told Claudiu the other day that he's going to make his wife very happy, as ironing is something that he is really great at.

Cornel vaccuuming the stairs (we were running out of things for them to do) with a great attitude and smile.