“What are we doing this weekend?” asked the Husband
“I would like to decorate the house for Halloween and get some supplies for the pumpkin party.” nicely said the Wife
Sunday afternoon
“What are you doing?” asked the Wife
“I am just going to wash the front door and the porch railings.” said the Husband “It will take me 15 minutes.”
After saving her son from certain brain injuries the Wife decided to go inside. Wife peeks her head out, taking a break from her own cleaning, after 2 hours. “Do you think you are done?” she asked, “It is already 5 pm.”
“Sorry”, said the Husband without a hint of remorse. “Doesn’t it look like new, though?”
“Sure”, answered the Wife, “but what about the Halloween decorations? You can’t put them up with the house all wet.”
The Husband gives the Wife the stank eye. The Wife walks away knowing that next weekend the Husband will be distracted by something large and motorized and she will have to decorate the whole house herself. And because all this decorating is for the kids, they will run off to play with their friends or stay in the living room buck naked watching Elmo. The Wife wonders if it is all worth it for the few weeks left in the month. She will do her duty, because that is what mothers do, pick up the pieces after it all crumbles.
Ugh!! No kidding. But the kiddos will remember it later.
Keep chanting to yourself that the kids love it and will remember all the hard work Mommy put into it. It’s what I do.
ANd how is it men will get distracted from anything you want them to do, even if what is distracting them takes longer and requires more work?
Just remember, it’s for the kids
We are slowly but surely getting our Halloween decorations up but our two will knock your ass down trying help you with it.
Seems longer
Happy Anniversary!!
Around here….I’d have to wash the rails myself before going shopping for decorations…but The Husband would thankfully stay home with the kids while I went out and bought the decorations…if he were home…but he’s been away on business 6 out of 8 weeks for the past 3-4 months….so we’ll make a dorky scare crow out of old clothes stuffed with leaves, set it on the bench by the mail box and call it Halloween Decorations…..untill my boys decide to use it as a punching bag and ruin it in less time that it took to assemble…..this year, I’ll have them make a seperate one to pummel if they so choose.