Being a House-Husband now, I am so glad that I got hit in the face with a chainsaw a year ago. Sporting a cut between my eyebrows allows me to have some semblence of manliness as I fight of the effects of dish-washed hands. (Incidentally I do windows too, but not today...that was laundry. I ROCK the laundry room!)
There are so many things that need to get taken cared of around the house... with 3 kids my wife and I can barely keep up!
I know what you mean. We have (4), and of them, two were sick today and not at school. It is also lambing season, but still had some Firewood Hoarders Club time in. A man has to have his priorities straight after all. The boys were up cutting wood again, but I hope they start moving wood soon. They owe me a lot of money right now, and I know if they don't make some, I am not going to get paid without a lawyer on the other end. I got $100 so far out of 825 cords of wood hauled. Katie is getting a little nervous. Now granted the wood varies from chips to hardwood logs, but still that is a fair amount of wood.
I'm forbidden from the laundry room. To many loads of "pink" Whites. And mixing my oiled, chip filled pockets, solvent splashed work clothes with her unmentionables.....
You know, pride goes before a fall, and after posting the first post on this thread, I was putting dishes away and thought they were a touch on the dirty side still. Granted I ran it on the 1 HR economy cycle, but jeesh...then I realized adding dish detergent would probably have helped. That puts a House-Husband in a serious bind. Does he: 1) Run the dishes through again with detergent? 2) Just scrub the dirtiest ones down by hand? Despite the detrimental effects of dishwasher hands, I did the latter! So I cannot say I rock the kitchen just yet that is for sure!!!
My wife and I share house duties. I vacuum, she hauls rounds out of the woods with me. I do the dishes often, she shovels the driveway often. We dont have set his and her chores in the house although I have to admit I do more firewood work, poop scooping and house maintenance and she does more cooking and cleaning. Im not against working a long day and coming home and loading the dishwasher or putting away laundry and she is willing to come help stack wood while dinner is simmering on the stove.
Since I’ve been forcibly retired I do almost all the cooking and most of the laundry. The wife still works and I need to keep moving or I’ll seize up big time so I see nothing wrong with doing my part. I’m a better couple anyway and she would tell you that. She has lugged pellets and firewood since we’ve been married and helps a lot outside so why not? It is a partnership after all and it’s all just work that needs to get done. She does her own work clothes though so I’m not exactly a laundry expert I guess. I did get us all switched over to homemade all natural cleaning products though and got rid of the poison she used to clean the bathroom with and she’s really happy about that. That stuff was making us both sick.
If the Laundry room has the back up boiler, will that allow me to retain my man-card for a few more weeks?
I'm going to say the same as Sean said, she helps me out with the wood, and keeps the stove going 24/7 for 6 months. I help her when I'm home, she cooks and I clean up and do dishes. We don't have a dishwasher, but we don't mind doing them as my ancestors did.
We put a dish washer in when I was working a few years back, I would get home at 5:30 and had to be up at 3:30. With 6 people in the house, Katie would be washing dishes at the sink for an hour, giving us only an hour or so together. We took a dish washer not being used at another home and installed it at our main home and it was the best thing we ever did. It is nice to spend time with the wife, as apparently groping her at the sink does not count as "quality time" according to Katie anyway (nor foreplay for some reason)??????????????
