When Clean is a mess...

Sharing my pain, so other may learn.

Long story short... the kids got in trouble for arguing with each again, so I made them help about the house.

It was going well, once they realized they were not going to just pick up one thing and hide in their room. I had Josh shaking out rugs, and Meagan cleaning out the shoe chest. When they finished a task they would come back to me for another. Meagan got assigned loading the dish washer. Because the kids have not been loading it correctly, we have started a rule where it needs to be inspected before they can start it. Meagan was just getting ready to start it, when I had to remind her of this rule. Good thing, as she had loaded it with dish soap she found on the top of the counter and not the little solid tabs we keep under the sink!

We wiped all the liquid soap we could out of the soap bin, and the door, but you can't get it all. After it was all said and done, it took 6 rinse cycles, stopping it 2 minutes into them, and using a shop vac to suck all of the suds out of the dish washer. Good thing we caught it, or we would have had a house full of suds just as Meagan pointed out... Just like in the cartoons!