Book Confessions of an Ex-Ballerina

Welcome Readers!

My name is Sarai Henderson. I write books. Imagine the movie Jumpers mixed with some Jason Statham action, that's my style. Some are about magical misfits and some are about telepathic bounty hunters.

I've been a Ballerina, an ice skater, a wrapper of handmade soaps and for a summer I was a hostess at an Elmer's restaurant. I'm a self proclaimed bohemian wannabe with a love for the outdoors and I've learned to cook from the internet. I've also been referred to as weird, but I just don't see it. :)

I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon City, OR with my husband, my three children (All boys), two cats, a dive bombing turkey vulture, a family of raccoons, an opossum and a coyote.

This blog is about how things run in the House of Chaos. It's a little wacky but we love it.



   

My husband and I got in a big fight the other night about who was doing their fair share of the chores around the house. He said that I didn't do anything unless he did something, and I told him that he never did anything and I ended up doing it all myself on my weekend. It got ugly quick and we knew we needed to find a solution since this wasn't the first time we've fought over the subject.

I did some research on our favorite webpage Pinterest to find out what other people were doing about this problem. I was amazed to find out that there wasn't a lot of solutions for adults out there.

I'm a little disappointed really. This isn't an isolated incident between me and my husband, there are a lot of other people out there experiencing this, so I wanted to share our solution so lets get down to the nitty gritty about chores.

• I split up the days between me and my husband. Since there are only two of us and seven days in a week that insured that we would get different chores every week.
• I assigned a chore to each day. Living room every Monday, Garbage on Tuesday, Laundry on Wednesday and so on and so forth.
• Then we agreed that every day that we didn't have a chore, we would make dinner. So on Monday when I was cleaning the living room my husband was making me dinner (Tacos, nom nom!)
• Last but not least, the dishes in our house are out of control. I don't know how it happens since there are only four of us and we aren't home during the day most days, but it does. We decided to do dishes every night after dinner together.

There are several good things about doing house work together. You get a chance to talk about your day, and talking, as we all know, is good for the relationship and you have an odd sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. Plus don't forget that you're not sitting in a trash heap that you call home.