Must try harder!

CRANKY40

WinterWarrior said:

@CRANKY40 it sounds wonderful. I used to love it when mine did 12 hour shifts and plenty of courses away 😁 You appreciate them more after a break 🤣

Definitely 😄 It's just me and the HT now and he's not too bad. I started early so he puts dirty clothes in the laundry basket, makes his own bed and hoovers his own bedroom. Not great at dusting and occasionally has to be reminded that "M is for mum, M is not for maid in this house", does load the dishwasher but sometimes forgets to switch it on (actually how is that a thing?) and can make tea, coffee and toast although the toaster makes him jump when the toast pops up 🤣 He can't cook because he's hypermobile and his fingers are too bendy to hold a knife to chop things so I've  taught him to microwave ready meals from M&S. I think he has most life skills and I've always said I won't be responsible for him being somebody's ex-husband. 

WinterWarrior

@CRANKY40 I think I have a niche business idea for you...you could start up a training school and we can all enroll our boys for a crash course 😁

dawnybabes

Where do I send my HT @CRANKY40 ? 

I’ve just ordered the hello fresh offer on Living Social so meals for 4 weeks, mainly because they come with nice easy to follow instructions and told my HT he is responsible for cooking them - also hyper mobile (plus a few other ‘fun’ stuff) so I will be supervising ! 

IzzyBee

I used to go to work at the coop at 8 til 12 then 12 till 6 at a dry cleaners  and 6 till 11 at a chip shop yes all in one day 7 days a week and I used to come home and they were all sat in the dark starving my sons were teenagers then my husband had  accident and was in recovery from a broken back I must have been mad my sons now have immaculate homes and gardens and do shopping housework the lot as my youngest son reminded me the other day the thing is mam when you all work together things get done so much quicker really what a surprise an I wasn’t been sarcastic at all 

WinterWarrior

🤣 by boys, I was also meaning husbands...I would love a crash course for mine. 

IzzyBee, I can just imagine how wounded they were that you didn’t rush home to feed them in between shifts! 

Dawnybabes I do like the idea of Hello Fresh, but have never looked into it. I’m not sure if they’d deliver up here (a lot of places won’t), but please do report back with how it goes ⭐️

CRANKY40

WinterWarrior said:

🤣 by boys, I was also meaning husbands...I would love a crash course for mine. 

I think once they're over the age of 12 (physically not mentally - that would take a while 🤣 ) they all become house trolls. 

MissRikkiC

I too have a PITA husband who I have to continually remind/ask/remind that there are jobs to be done. 

He openly admits and I quote “if I do what you’ve asked me bad enough you won’t ask me to do it again”. 

We had to have a real chat the other day about how getting things ready the night before the morning of (mostly a Thursday as I don’t work from home on a Thursday) for my daughter at nursery and everything I need to take to work takes me a whole hour. By the time we’re all fed and my daughter has been fed to sleep (she’s only 10 months) and I’ve got everything sorted it’s bed time. The whole time since he’s read her bedtime story at 7pm he’s sat watching tv obviously doesn’t fly very well considering. 

He has now been put ‘in charge of’ the nursery bag and the nursery have been informed to call my husband in instances that my daughter doesn’t have something she needs and not to call me for that.  

That might be a bit brutal reading back but it’s honestly the only way I feel we have shared responsibility! 

Well done on your 5k, I have an issue where I struggle to sit down for any real length of time so find myself on the rower or bike more than anything else! I argue it keeps me from killing aforementioned husband! 🤦🏼‍♀️

WinterWarrior

Brutal, but hopefully effective @MissRikkiC 😁 well done!
I get bored, so like the bike as I can still read at the same time 😬

Kakiste

I would absolutely swap mine, just a nasty piece of work. It's my idle daydream that in a few years time Henry Cavill (actor who plays the Witcher/Superman) rocks up and think I'm the most amazing person ever and we run off together (taking my daughter and the cats of course!) 

He's actually alright at cleaning but such a bloody martyr about it that it's just far easier if I jump to and then try and do it first otherwise if he does a daily chore more than twice in a row he gets in monumental sulk about how he's so put upon and a domestic slave to my slobbery! (I don't think it's ever occurred to him that if he's done the hoovering three times in a week then I must have done it the other four..... but when I used to point it out then he would then double down and say that I was either lying about the amount I'd done or my hoovering/washing up/cooking was so ineffectual whereas he does a Proper Job (capitals intended) so he was clearly still working harder!) What a twit. 
Basically roll on being debt free and being swept off my feet by Henry Cavill!

WinterWarrior

@kakiste I can’t believe you just explained Henry Cavill to me...are you quite mad? I’m so sorry, but I think he may choose me first....I also want his dog 🤣
I wholly agree about your twit, but you really vacuum every day? 😳 every day! I don’t know if I should be impressed or ashamed 😬