When parents take a vacation and leave their kids to take care of the house, they take a calculated risk. Either the house will resemble a pigsty after a “home alone” style party, or the kids will step up and show their responsible side with everything in its place. The teens living in the following house did not conform to expectations. Let’s see what they did.

Between work and home, parents to teenagers rarely have time to themselves and their fondest wish is a nice long vacation, with fingers tightly crossed that their house will still be in one piece when they return. The Schoonovers could not believe their eyes when they returned from their holiday.

Vacationer’s Dream

Although the Schoonover family already lived in beautiful vacation hot spot Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that did not mean Karen and Chip didn’t deserve some much-needed time away. After some deliberation, they came to the debatable decision that their four daughters were old enough to stay on their own for a while and booked a week-long trip in December.

The surprise their daughters created while they were away was something that they never expected.