Posted in Being a Grown Up, Domestic Bliss on Nov 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
The last section is “Taking care of hearth and home”
This is the stuff of my discontent, and the real reason I picked up this book in the first place. Housework!
Here’s a funny list from this section:
Top 10 Gender-Associated Tasks
1. Men take out the garbage(dh does sometimes, but I do too)
2. Women cook
3. Men take care […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up, Parenting on Nov 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
Section 4 of Just Kiss Me and Tell Me You did the Laundry: How to Negotiate Equal Roles for Husband and Wife in Parenting, Career, and Home Life is “Raising the Children”.
The author makes a great point here, that parenting is about more than just showing up and changing a few diapers. There is a […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up on Nov 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
Section Three is “Managing Work and Money”.
This is a big chunk of the book. After all, here is the whole “mommy wars” subject - should women work outside the home? Should we have our work as SAHM’s valued as work? Etc, etc.
For us, in our current situation, we have this to balance:
We have a goal […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up, The Art of Happiness on Nov 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
Section two of Just Kiss Me is about Loving Each Other. This is an area we have worked on in the past, especially just over a year ago when we were literally on the brink of divorce. And even now, I don’t think we are great at this. But, we didn’t do too badly on […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up, Books on Nov 9th, 2008 3 Comments »
Just Kiss Me and Tell Me You Did the Laundry: How to Negotiate Equal Roles for Husband and Wife in Parenting, Career, and Home Life by Karen Bouris.
I’m working my way through this book, and trying to see if I can come up with some strategies to make things work a bit better between my […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up on Nov 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
Jove left a good comment on my last post:
Also, from the other side, if you never say “no” and people know that you find it really difficult to say “no”, they will either (a) take advantage of you or (b) stop asking you to do things because they are afraid of taking advantage of you.
That […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up on Sep 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
Too much:
Work this week. It’s Friday at 9:30, and I’m just getting in from work. The kids had to go with me today.
Mess in my house. Well, with all that time at work, when was I going to clean?
Mess in my car. Same situation.
Weeds in the yard. Ditto again on why.
Money for the tank of […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up, Domestic Bliss on Aug 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
We’re still trying to figure out how to keep up with household chores now that I’m not in the house all the time. Yesterday we sat down and wrote down every chore we could think of, and then divided them up. I won’t bother listing my chores, as they are by far the longest list […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up on Aug 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’ve heard the saying that “perfect is the enemy of done”. Of course, if you are a perfectionist, you can get so stuck trying to get something perfect - which is impossible - that you can’t get any traction on the task and nothing gets done. But what if you just want to do a […]
Posted in Being a Grown Up on Jul 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
I’ve had quite the day for shedding tears.
First, I cried with Carbon as we watched The Iron Giant together. This parable made me cry the first time I saw it too - it’s actually a really good movie. The premise of a weapon who realizes that he can choose to be what he wants to be […]
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