The Real Reason to Have Kids

Our back yard is full of rocks, mostly granite.
Big ones, small ones.
Either way, it makes digging and growing things pretty difficult.

So, I told Olivia that if she would collect rocks (which we can in turn use to put under the deck when it's {eventually} built), I would give her $.25 per pound.
And she did.

She spent about 30 minutes walking around the backyard picking up rocks and filling a bucket.

In the end she collected a little over 10 pounds of rock.
That's $2.50!
I told her next time it would only be $.10 a pound.
She hasn't gone out again -- yet.