An excerpt from our morning as I got myself ready for work, got the kids ready for daycare and talked to my husband, Chris about what he would do with his day at home:
Kate: Since you won’t be going anywhere – you could work on cleaning out your closet. You keep saying that you’ll do that – and now you have a whole day!
Chris: Mmm hmm.
Kate: I bet you’ll find all kinds of things that you thought you lost…
Chris: Mmmm.
Eleanor: [drops yellow magic marker on the floor] Daddy – help!
Chris: Did you drop your pen? You can pick it up yourself – you don’t need me to do it for you.
Eleanor: No! Help!
Chris: You know – you shouldn’t get into the habit of relying on men to do things for you. They’ll never follow through, and even if they try to, they’ll only do a half assed* job of it.
Kate: Are you talking about your closet…?
Chris: Mmm hmm.
*Chris is trying to clean up his language around the kids – but things do slip through.
Hope all of my readers are having a great Friday. I haven’t been writing as much as I would have liked this week due to many sick children, snow days, and the fact that I was literally iced into my house for 24 hours (Obama really has a point regarding what wimps DC residents are about “bad weather”).
I may not get to my weekly Friday Confession today. But I promise that I’ll do it this weekend. Now I just have to think about what it will be…possibly barricading my husband in his closet until he cleans his way out of it.
Did you kick your hubby in the shins after that comment? Want me to? ;)
I don’t understand why he’s not more enthusiastic about cleaning his closet! Hope the kids are all better.
Too funny – who knows, maybe you’ll come home to a cleaned closet AND he’ll make you dinner.
hahah, chris and bryan need to bond
Kate, So sorry that you are having such a combination of tough times, including the impending closet job!
And sometimes it’s just easier to do it all yourself, although I know that gives them a ‘get-out clause’ each time…
I’m the kind of odd person who actually enjoys tidying, but I won’t tidy up my husband’s stuff. I wouldn’t want to be responsible for him not being able to find things!
I’m embarassed to admit that my husband’s side of the closet is much neater than mine.
My excuse is that I don’t have the organizing system I want and can’t sufficiently tidy my side until J.R. buys and installs it. So far, no luck.
Maybe Chris can come talk to him.
I love sound bytes. This one was cute. NEVER apologize for light posting. Life always takes priority over blogging!
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend. Maybe you can help Chris clean his closet so he doesn’t do a half-assed job.
I LOVE it! I really do want to see those munchkins in real life! (the kids, not Chris!)
See, what probably saves his life is that he’s friggin hilarious and clever. If my husb. said that I’d probably go from wanting to hurt him to wanting to give him a BJ. Oops, can i say that on here?
My husband is the organizer in our family. Which works out okay, because I really don’t care if things pop out every time I open a door, and he never complains about straightening it up.
Did that make sense? I spent the day teaching high school chemistry. And I’m an English teacher.
Nice.
Yesterday, my husband told me that he couldn’t take out the recycling because it’s “crunch time” for him right now at work.
At least he was clever about being lazy.
Can’t wait to hear if he does it. I always end up caving on my “if it doesn’t make it to the hamper, it doesn’t get washed” threat.
Men do not notice clutter or mess.
Cleaning closets is so fun. Your family needs a big dose of reality:)