Monday's are swimming lesson days in our house. We spend 2 hours of our precious evening time at the YMCA so that E can learn to swim. Since A is in busy season I have to cover it all. I pre-cook dinner, take the girls to the Y, sit through swimming, get E dresses bring them home and then finish cooking dinner. By the time the girls are in bed, I am exhausted.
A gets home tonight at 7:45. Dinner is over and cleaned up, the girls are dressed in PJ's and I'm about to read a chapter of their book to them. He immediately starts in on me. Did you brush their teeth? Have you made a grocery list? How much laundry have you done? When I told him none, he gives this huge theatrical sigh, the says "I guess I will do it". I did 4 loads the other day, it is not like he doesn't have clean clothes or anything. So I made the menu and grocery list and he went out shopping. I hope it takes him forever to get it done. I just don't want to deal with it right now. I know he is busy at work but it is no reason to take it out on me or the girls.
The girls are upstairs supposedly sleeping but I can hear L yelling at E. I wish I could get some sewing done but the machine is in the office right across from their room. They would never sleep with the click-clack noise. I got some great fat quarters to make a gift for my friends TL with the new baby. I am going to make matching burp clothes and bibs. I got some appliqués and ribbon to decorate them even a "W" for the baby's name. I also got two new fabrics for dresses and a fat quarters pack to make a patchwork skirt. I want to make a matching top somehow but I don't know how to tie it into the skirt. I may try buying a white collored top and sewing a patch on as an appliqué but they remains to be seen.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Dress Shopping
I took a road trip today with my mom and sister to buy a wedding dress. Not for me, not for my sister but for my mom. She is getting married in about 2 months. I am very excited for her and love the guy she is marrying. In order to do this trip, I had to get my girls up early, drive them to my sisters house, drop the girls off and pick up N, my sister. We then had to drive about 45 minutes to my mom, K and her affianced, G's house. From there we drove 2 hours to Nordstrom's to buy her a dress.
I spent 7 hours in the car today and we were successful. She picked out the most gorgeous dress. It is a maroon, long dress with a bead-work top. I volunteered to sew her a shawl to cover her shoulders since the weather is unpredictable in April. On the way home from the trip we began a discussion in our respective significant others contributions to the house. I am listening to the conversation and realize A is defiantly leaving me to do the lions share of the work. I cook most of the dinners, do all of the laundry, pay the bills and do any of the daily cleaning that needs done. I do work part-time but I spend that extra time driving the girls to activities and doing some homeschooling.
So now, I am slightly upset as I drive myself and the girls home. A calls me as I am leaving my sisters to let me know he is home from work. I tell him we will be home in 40 minutes. It is 5:30pm. When I walk in A says lets go out to dinner. The last thing I want to do is go out again but he has started nothing an it is already after 6pm. The menu for the week was on the wall and it lists where to find the recipes. Why didn't he start dinner? He was tired. Really, I mean I cook when I am tired and he gets frustrated if I am home at a reasonable hour and don't cook dinner. Grr, so now we have $25 less in fun money and a ticked off wife.
I did tell him that I was frustrated with him about it and he admitted he should have cooked dinner but I guess it remains to be seen if it actually changes anything.
I spent 7 hours in the car today and we were successful. She picked out the most gorgeous dress. It is a maroon, long dress with a bead-work top. I volunteered to sew her a shawl to cover her shoulders since the weather is unpredictable in April. On the way home from the trip we began a discussion in our respective significant others contributions to the house. I am listening to the conversation and realize A is defiantly leaving me to do the lions share of the work. I cook most of the dinners, do all of the laundry, pay the bills and do any of the daily cleaning that needs done. I do work part-time but I spend that extra time driving the girls to activities and doing some homeschooling.
So now, I am slightly upset as I drive myself and the girls home. A calls me as I am leaving my sisters to let me know he is home from work. I tell him we will be home in 40 minutes. It is 5:30pm. When I walk in A says lets go out to dinner. The last thing I want to do is go out again but he has started nothing an it is already after 6pm. The menu for the week was on the wall and it lists where to find the recipes. Why didn't he start dinner? He was tired. Really, I mean I cook when I am tired and he gets frustrated if I am home at a reasonable hour and don't cook dinner. Grr, so now we have $25 less in fun money and a ticked off wife.
I did tell him that I was frustrated with him about it and he admitted he should have cooked dinner but I guess it remains to be seen if it actually changes anything.
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