Haley's productive cleanup

Haley had dumped all of her toys out of their containers onto the floor.

I told her to go upstairs and pick up her room. She went, but after about

half an hour I thought to myself, "it is really quiet up there, I wonder

what she is really doing." However, I didn't even have to go upstairs

when she came trotting down the stairs with her hair full of clips...clips

that happened to be on her bedroom floor at the time. I couldn't get

mad that she didn't pick up her room, because in her eyes, she was

picking up...she just found another place to put things. So it wasn't a

total loss. Kids get the craziest ideas, yet very smart ideas.