I must say that I really appreciated her efforts to wash up. She has only been living here with us a year and it has taken me that long to teach her a little bit of pride. She is a "naturally" incredibly untidy and messy child. Something which I really struggle with. I will ask her later, when she's alone, if she had a good time, I will thank her for "cleaning up", for she certainly did try. Then I will nicely add, that there was a lot more cleaning up to do (in my standards). I've been busy for an hour! She still has a bit of tidying up to do outside before her father comes home. I just spotted balloons rolling around which I think I'll get before the dogs do.

It's tough for me not to be able to relax until everything is clean and neat. It's tough on the kids, they think I'm a nut!