Anything to get out

Kyle was punished the other day for leaving his room a TOTAL mess. He had time in the morning before school to get it done, but sometimes ...... :/ his racing little mind gets distracted. Well, that morning happened to be another one of those mornings. I did not check before he left for the bus. I assumed he did at least a fair job. He was so convincing he was going to get right at it before my shower. After my shower I yelled to see how it was going and he said he was working on it.
Then when I walked by to drop off laundry to Trev's room. I did a double take to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was. Yet it still looked exactly the same as when I initially saw it. I mentioned it whne he came home. He gave this look like ( Oh ya!) and knew he was in the wrong. I am sure Trev on the computer or a number of other things took away the importance so he just decided to say I'll do it later. Little did he know that that wasn't going to cut it. You play you pay. Anyway he didn't complain at all and was going to take it with a grain of salt as usual. But....................................as soon as Peter and I talked about just shoveling instead of snowblowing. He said with the plan in sight. "Oh I'll do it "! As he shoveled I took some pics cause he was so damn cute. Although he offered he sure was giving some forced smiles of excitement.