NYR 1-17-14

Tonight while I was watching a DVR-ed episode of Parenthood and Jimmy was surfing the Internet, Mac was playing a game on his iPad at the kitchen counter (after just getting it back after Monday's major meltdown). He disappeared into his bedroom and stayed in there for awhile. (Remember our apartment is tiny, so I could see all this activity from the couch.  The kitchen counter is one foot behind the couch and Mac's bedroom door is less than 10 feet in front of the couch.

He emerged a good bit later to announce that he cleaned his bedroom.

Um, what?

Mac Story has never - and I mean NEVER - cleaned his bedroom on his volition before.  Never.

He then told us he was playing a video game online with 6 of his school friends and one of them, Anna, had to leave the game to go clean her room.  It must have come up in their group chatting online that she is the only one who shares a room with a sibling and it was clean-up-the-bedroom time.  In a show of solidarity with her, Mac decided to clean his room too.

There are several Anna's in 5th grade, and I don't know which Anna this was, but I am very thankful for her today and hope that Mac plays video games with her every Friday night during clean-up-the-bedroom time.