New Living Arrangement?
15 January 2010
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It’s amazing how much you can get done when people leave you alone! Since my husband’s been away. We are now on the 2nd week here with one more to go.
- Cleaned out every single pantry, drawer and shelf in the kitchen and cleaned out the fridge.
- Cleaned out every shelf and cabinet in the bathrooms.
- Replaced the lightbulbs along our front walk way.
- Faux-painted the powder room the way I had been wanting to.
- Painted the louver doors in the laundry room
- Repaired the dent on the wall of my son’s bedroom wall made by a thrown Hess truck, as well as the one made by the fish tank he thought he wouldn’t drop.
- Bought frames and hung the photos I had been meaning to hang for over a year now.
- We’ve made 2 batches of fresh ravioli and one batch of cookies.
- We have a full fridge and a very short grocery list.
- There is never more than one load of laundry waiting to be done.
- The sink never has dishes piled up and the dishwasher is never waiting long for someone to unload it.
- My son is actually picking up after himself, without nagging. I had to laugh yesterday when we were at the Ice Cream shop with his team mates. He had dropped some gummy bears and picked them up without a word from me. Three weeks ago he would have stepped on them and mashed them before I, ME, I picked them up.
- And the best thing…….I have not had to harass anyone to stop snoring!
Ahhhhhhh. Domestic bliss.
Do I miss my husband? Sure, but I’m thinking that maybe we should purchase a two family home when he returns. Live in side by side residences? He can come for conjugal visits, occasional meals, and to open jars I can’t manage to open. Doubtful.
This was by far, the funniest and most favorite post I’ve read today! You are spot, spot on!!
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Isn’t it great when they aren’t there. This is why being single is so dang appealing. My hubby came home last night, and already the house is a sty.
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Nancy, you’re inspiring me to get some much needed housework done. Maybe I could send my husband to wherever your husband’s been?
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@Pickletalks on twitter.
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What I like best about when my husband is away is that I don’t have to make real meals and I can stay up all night. But these don’t out weigh all the things he does for me around the house (shopping, laundry, ironing, putting the kids to bed and taking one to supervise homework.) I often wonder if it is the difference between a man who married late in life and men who marry really young. He already did all these things himself and he waited so long for children.
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Mine comes home long enough to upset out routines and then he’s asleep or back at work. Maybe I can get him to join the foreign legion?
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i hear you, sister! when mine is gone, i only have three kids to pick up after instead of four. and you’re right…i’m waaay more productive when he’s gone. i kind of like it, to tell you the truth. i don’t even miss the conjugal visits and i can have my 14 year old open the jars!
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I know! I hate to admit it but I LOVE when my husband is out of town. My productivity skyrockets!
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Excellent ideas. I think #7 is one I need to get my butt in gear on. We’re in this house nearly 3 years, oh, wait, it HAS been 3 years, and I still don’t have pictures hanging in our living room. And they’re already in frames! Argh!
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I enjoyed this post as much as I envy your little vacation. That sort of productivity is more energizing for me than any vacation I have had. Maybe I have been on the wrong sort of vacations.
I actually look forward to Monday’s. Weekends often feel as if I have one more set of needs to negotiate/consider. Routines, rituals and item placement are completely derailed. Oddly enough, each Friday I fantasize that the boys and housework will get twice as much care and attention( and that I will get time to “myself”…funny how it doesn’t add up that way. 2 family home sounds nice. very nice.
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@BrilliantSulk on twitter.
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You made fresh ravioli?
I cook for a living and even I do not delight my family with homemade treats such as that. They get whatever crap I have left in the bottom of the veggie bin.
Please email my husband and tell him to LEAVE.
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Hey, you forgot one-he comes over to kill any stray spiders/bugs that cross your path! Man, where do you get the energy to do all that? Can you stay at my house for a week? LOL!
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@38traci on twitter.
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Can you come over to my house. I have several nicks in the wall, an empty fridge, and six loads of laundry? Please. Pretty please with a gummy bear on top?
Watch out! Your husband may come and not know where he is. LOL.
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Maybe you could do the NYC thing and keep your apartments. A space of one’s own does sound nice…
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wow, now that’s efficient! I have to hide this from my husband so he doesn’t expect me to do the same amount of stuff while he’s on his next business trip
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My husband and I joke that we should buy a duplex and live together that way.
I can not believe how much you got done!!!
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@thinkspin on twitter.
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You are so motivated and inspiring. I think I’ll kick my husband out of the house, too, but will also allow him to drop by for conjugal visits and jar opening. I’ll only give him the remote after he’s satisfied my wishes.
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@erinlynn76 on twitter.
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Isn’t it amazing how much mess a single husband can generate? It boggles my mind daily. Even my twin 4 year olds can’t really compete.
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OMG! I was that productive in my second trimester when the nesting urge really kicked in full force. Now, not so much. But only because I’m busy keeping my 10 month old entertained! I love my son more than life itself, but I do miss the days when I could actually get stuff done!
-Jen
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@pixielation on twitter.
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you’ve just made me really tired reading that!
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Frida and Diego had homes side by side. Mia and Woody…wait, that’s not a good example.
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Ooooh, I’m jealous. I so want to get things done around here. Maybe its time to send hubby off for some guy bonding time.
LOVE the paint! What did you use?
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You are so right! I think about all the picking up after my husband I do everyday. I could get things done if he went on a trip! Oh and just to relax
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@hrtsmakefamily on twitter.
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I want to get in on this. Maybe two nights a week.. total clean. I think that would improve my attitude huge.
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@mommywords on twitter.
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Nancy this is awesome! I’d have to get rid of hubby and kids to get the laundry and grocery vibe going! Isn’t is sad how much doesn’t get done with our honey dos around?
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@lalabh on twitter.
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Go, girl!! Side by side homes sound like a good idea
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@lalabh on twitter.
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@AmyatGITR on twitter.
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My hubs won’t be back for another week. It is pretty peaceful around here too. Can’t live with ‘em. Can’t live without ‘em.
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@submom on twitter.
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Wow. Super Woman! I am exhausted just reading the list. Amazing. Maybe you should write invoices and hand them to hubby when he comes back.
That could go towards the down payment for his new adobe. LOL. My husband travels 50% of the time. That means 50% of the time I have 2 boys and a clean house, 50% of the time I have 3 boys, a messier house, and 3 angry people.
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@genxmomblogger on twitter.
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This is too funny. So agree. Thanks for the funny post today and great job with that faux painting!
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good morning,
I feel exactly the same when I was left alone at home, one becomes very productive and peace …
insightful post,
insightful writings…
cheers,
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