For all the Grandmas out there!!

[evergreen100]

Originally Posted by manabita

My dh is home! We are all doing the happy dance around here.

Just wanted to pop on and say hi! Praying you all have a wonderful Sunday!!

Blessings,
Joy

yay!!!! Enjoy and you have a wonderful sunday too

[evergreen100]

Originally Posted by Vallie

I see.... it was once an annoyance and now it's a joy!

Didnt you already say that once Vallie or am I going bonkers???

Edit: Oh I see you are still stirring

[Vallie]

Originally Posted by manabita

My dh is home! We are all doing the happy dance around here.

Just wanted to pop on and say hi! Praying you all have a wonderful Sunday!!

Blessings,
Joy

[Vallie]

Originally Posted by PQ

In the photo you can see the frontage road behind the car --- that is how far she flipped and flipped and flipped and flipped and flipped before she finally came to rest 15 feet from the interstate. We estimate that the car probably traveled at least 50 YARDS before it stopped.

That is awful PQ. I hope everyone got out alive.

[Vallie]

Originally Posted by addielee

Trap just went off for a 3rd time today! Soooo glad that's a blue job and he's home.

[essee]

Originally Posted by evergreen100

My hubby came to me straight from his mother's arms and those of 4 sisters!!! There were very definite "pink" jobs and "blue" jobs in that home. In our early years together, he didnt do any of the hands on work of babies and toddlers, in fact the first nappy he changed was that of his first grandson. He has however been a very hands on grandad. I now have him trained to do washing, ironing, folding, changing sheets, remaking beds, choosing his own clothes, taking care of his own prescriptions, kitchen cleanup, cuppa making.....I still need to work on bill paying, financial organising and cooking!!! I on the other hand do not need to know how to start the lawn mower

Oh Jill, how I can relate to this!! But there were NO "blue" jobs in Don's house - his mother did absolutely everything. Don's mother had a bath run for him when he arrived home from work (he was a carpenter) and his clean clothes laid on the bed. He has NEVER changed a nappy!! My training has loosely followed yours, although apart from the tea making the rest is quite sporadic.

As for the lawn mower .................. we were out at dinner last year and a man at our table, who spent most of the night putting down his wife, said to me,"Can you believe I even had to teach Imogen how to use the lawn mower?". So I held up my hands and said, "See these hands? They have never touched a lawn mower, and as long as I breathe they never will!!" He was dumbstruck!!

How things have changed. Although sometimes I wonder. In this morning's paper was an article about the stress working mothers are under and the fact that the bulk of household duties still rest with them. So perhaps we have not moved on as much as we would like to think.

[evergreen100]

Originally Posted by essee

Oh Jill, how I can relate to this!! But there were NO "blue" jobs in Don's house - his mother did absolutely everything. Don's mother had a bath run for him when he arrived home from work (he was a carpenter) and his clean clothes laid on the bed. He has NEVER changed a nappy!! My training has loosely followed yours, although apart from the tea making the rest is quite sporadic.

As for the lawn mower .................. we were out at dinner last year and a man at our table, who spent most of the night putting down his wife, said to me,"Can you believe I even had to teach Imogen how to use the lawn mower?". So I held up my hands and said, "See these hands? They have never touched a lawn mower, and as long as I breathe they never will!!" He was dumbstruck!!

How things have changed. Although sometimes I wonder. In this morning's paper was an article about the stress working mothers are under and the fact that the bulk of household duties still rest with them. So perhaps we have not moved on as much as we would like to think.

Even though it is the same man, I WISH I had the husband back then that I have now...life with 3 children under 4 including a seriously disabled one would have been so much easier.

[PQ]

Driving by..........I am finally starting to wind down after our harrowing drive home from Bozeman........


DON'T TEXT AND DRIVEUser:PQ

[evergreen100]

...and I dont know HOW long the sheets would stay on the bed between washes if he was in charge