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October 2011 Moms
missyishere
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Testes Tuesday
missyishere
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It's actually our anniversary today, so I can't say anything too bad about him (he leaves his clothes on the bathroom floor EVERY DAY). Regardless, he may not shower me with gifts or flowers, but he does provide me with more love and support than I could ever ask for. He are the most affectionate and attentive father I have ever witnessed. His daughters and I are truly lucky to have the best damn red-head in our lives.
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Re: Testes Tuesday
Happy Anniversary!
I only have one today (that I will mention).
DD's party was this past weekend. There was a ton of preparation and work that went into having this party. I was baking and cooking in my spare time for a couple of weeks ahead of time. DH did nothing. Come Friday (the day before the party), he decides that he wants to do a flower arrangement for the party. He comes with me to the grocery store so I can get a few last minute things and he can get flowers. He gets $40 worth of flowers and tells me that I can't spend as much on food because the flowers were expensive...ummm, I think that we will spend the money on food before flowers DH. Friday night I am trying to make 3 different color butter creams, frost all the cupcakes, and make three loaves of crusty bread. He wants me to watch DD so he can work on the flowers. I told him that I had a ton to do and he would have to wait. He then asks me why I left everything to the last minute... He almost got smacked with a spatula. Here is a picture of his flower arrangement.
mamaZbo, you totally should've hit him with the spatula!
Last Wednesday was my first full day working since the day I went into labour. DH's parents came and watched Lily and everything was fine (although I wish she would've been sadder to see me go or at least given me a good greeting when I got home). My complaint is that DH did *nothing* to help with Lily that morning. Even though I was the one with reason to be stressed, I had to get both Lily and myself ready, get her started on breakfast (MIL finished with her, thankfully), etc. The only saving grace for him was that he made my sandwich for lunch. Which I then left at home and FIL had to bring it to me. Doh!
He's also driving me crazy by dragging his heels about getting some paperwork so he can be paid the full amount he's owed for the work he's been doing, and by not being proactive about trying to get a reference from the principal/vice-principal he's been working with.
BFP #1: July 12, 2010 Natural M/C: July 26, 2010
BFP #2: January 30 ,2011 Born: September 29, 2011
BFP #3: January 5, 2013 Born: August 25, 2013
We live 5-7 hours from all three sets of parents (my parents are divorced). All three sets plus my sister and her two daughters are driving up this weekend for DD's birthday party.
We're hosting all of the travelers for dinner Friday night. We're having the travelers plus two sets of cousins and spouses for a lunch/birthday party Saturday that will most likely go on to dinner Saturday evening. We're having brunch for the travelers before they leave town Sunday. So I've been doing a lot of meal planning, etc.
I sent DH the menu for each day yesterday. He told me Friday's dinner and Sunday's brunch looked great but suggested that I cut the birthday party menu down to sandwich stuff (so people can make their own sandwiches), fruit salad and chips sitting on the coffee table for the guys who are watching college football. Then, he had the nerve to fight me on it and tell me I shouldn't ask his opinion if he didn't want it.
There is no polite way to explain to a 32 year old man that anyone with hosting abilities knows that you can't give people who just drove 7 hours to see your baby a sandwich and a bag of chips for lunch.
Burned by the Bear
mamaZbo--I am right there with ya!
I had been telling DH for over a month that we needed to pick up the office and the front bedroom because we were going to need the space for all the people coming. We were showing A Bee Movie in the office (which is usually covered with 1 million pieces of camera equipment because DH doesn't pick up after himself.) All month I had been telling him. He waits until Saturday to start picking up. On top of that, he goes to Home Depot and comes back with a can of paint to "touch up" the trim throughout the house! Really!?! You pick the day before the party to do that? The day before the party is for basic cleaning and food prep, not projects. Ugh. I'm telling ya, that Y chromosome really needs a lot of work.
Mamzbo: That arrangement totally looks like a man did it. Not in a bad way it is just so masculine looking. I'm loving it! He did deserve a good whacking though!
SO starts a million projects and never finishes them. We renovated the house before Gator was born and did a full kitchen remodel. It's been 14 months and all of the trim work and some painting and such still needs to be done. Our dining room is full of tools and construction junk....no table. Our house is 900sq ft so it's very frustrating to have an unusable dining room, that you have to walk through to get from the kitchen, bathroom, Gator's room...to get to the master and living room.
We have a big unfinished basement and he decided to clean it out so it can be sealed and turned into storage and an office. I paid his nephew to pull everything out of the basement and SO and I were going to go through everything. It got pulled out, gone through, put into piles, and then put back into the basement due to him leaving and chance of rain. It had sat outside for a week....plenty of time for the donation stuff to be dropped off, and the other stuff to be reorganized among bins. So we pretty much paid his nephew 100 dollars for nothing because now we have to pull it all back out.
Three years ago, he started building a fire pit. The hole in the yard was dug. That's as far as he has gotten. It's now full of three foot tall weeds.
Happy anniversary Missyleaf and to mamaZbo you should have hit him with a spoon!
DH got a royal sh*! fest from me last night. His cat has peed on our bed twice in the last week which is something he doesn't normally do. I noticed on the white sheets that it looked like he may have peed some blood so I told DS that I thought kitty had a UTI. This was on Friday or maybe Thursday. He did nothing about it that day or over the weekend. Yesterday I come home and he tells me that he thinks the cat is having issues and blood in his urine and that when he picked up the cat the cat peed all over him and the stairs. I told him that he needs to take his cat in right away and get him some antibiotics. He said he would just go get some from the vet the next day and that the cat didn't need to be seen by the vet. I completely went off on him telling him that I am disgusted that he doesn't take care of his animals immediately and that it is complete BS that he doesn't want to pay for an examination. He responded that he would take kitty in tomorrow whenever they can get him in which really wouldn't work for us since we both have to work all day and the vet closes at 5:00. He said he would call them. I then unloaded on him that I was sick of having to take care of everything and if I don't do it that it would never get done and I am very sick of the BS. He ended up calling the vet last night (they are open late on Mondays), got an appointment for 6:30, and took the kitty in. The kitty is now on antibiotics...finally! i am just so mad that I have to be a total beotch before he will act on some things. This isn't the first time he has sat on getting the animals treated. It is like he thinks that if he waits it out then it will resolve itself. I guess I can not expect more from a man who won't even take himself to the Dr even when he thinks he is going to die from something. Ugh! I am mad again just thinking about it!