When does the wifey-pooh come home?

[Remington]

When does the wife come home? Mine comes home any time between 5:30 and 7 depending on certain circumstances. I have gotten calls where she tells me she won't be home until like 10 or 11.... :shock:

Do you guys clean up right before the wife gets home or are you like, "eh forget it..." ???

:D

[mjknapp]

My wife works a weird schedule. she starts at 8 am every day
monday- around 8-9 pm
Tuesday- around 2 pm
wednesday- 5-6 pm
Thursday- 8-9 pm
Friday aourn 5-6 pm

[Don-Dad]

Wifey Pooh, hehehehe, generally comes home around 5:30.

[tt3]

My wife gets home at or around 4:15. Desk job, ya understand. But, she's on call 24-7 so she's gotten pages at 3am or in the middle of church too...
Clean? RIIIIIIGHT! :lol:
One of us (usually me) picks up the toys strewn about after Tara's in bed.

[Remington]

I don't know about you but my wife makes more of a mess than the kids sometimes. My wife will bring home clothes and she just leaves them tossed over a chair or the back of a couch. Drives me mad! :roll:

[tt3]

Hey, sounds like our two wives would get along great! My wife walks past the laundry chute to drop her clothes next to the bed :roll:

[Canuck]

Between 6 and 7 p.m. I usually try and have dinner almost on the table and my son cleaned up, and the laundry done.

[csimonl]

My wife normally gets home between 3-4. A quick question, how many times in one day do you clean up the kitchen? It seems that I am always cleaning that room.

[Remington]

Hey, sounds like our two wives would get along great! My wife walks past the laundry chute to drop her clothes next to the bed :roll: :shock: Wow, if we had a laundry chute my wife would do that for sure... lol As soon as she walks through the door she drops everything.... thud! And there it sits for days unless I pick it up. Then she wants to know why it is so messy some days. I then make it known.... :wink:

Me: Honey, look around. Where are all the toys?

Wife: hmmm... looks like they are all in the toy box except for that one over there.

Me: Yep! Now, what is it that is cluttering up that space over there?

Wife: Oh, that's where my new pants went! :D

Me: They never "went" anywhere. They have been sitting there since the day you brought them home.

Wife: :twisted: :twisted:

[tt3]

I've totally given up on stuff like that. We've got open stairs going to the second floor, and there's always crap piled on them because someone doesn't want to take it all the way up. Even going up the stairs empty handed past all the crap...
SO when its vacuum time I get to take it all up. Not even worth fussing about anymore. Sheesh, I bet I'm starting to sound like a stepford wife!
:lol:

[tt3]

csimonl, I keep the counters and sink forever in a state of "pickup". We have some other flat spaces that get dumped on too, though. I'm a horrible packrat who purges once in a while, so when the junk gets too high it gets tossed or filed.
(I don't want to sound like a person you see on that tv show cops though... :wink: )

[mjknapp]

. A quick question, how many times in one day do you clean up the kitchen? It seems that I am always cleaning that room.
I do a really good job in the kitchen. I have a little under the cabinet radio in there, and when i need some time away from the kids, I turn on cartoons and go in there and listen to talk radio, or the Phillies if they are playing. So I usually clean everything up while I am in there, I can't stand to just stand still.

[Remington]

Ever since i started staying home full time with the kids the kitchen is fairly clean and picked up. I spend more time in their after meals cleaning. When I worked nights and watched the kids days I never went into the kitchen because we were stacking dirty dishes on the floor because there was no more room on the counters.

But now I cook and I have a radio in there and I spend a good amount of time in there.... well when I am not on the computer. :wink:

[tt3]

Thats what I need, a radio in there. I hate having to turn on the one in the living room just to hear it in the kitchen...

[G1cajun]

Wife gets home around 5:30 to 6:30 Mon - Thurs. she gets home around 1 pm on Friday. About once a month she is out of town for about 3 days doing a seminar or teaching a class.

I clean the kitchen probably 3 times a day after each meal and have trained the wife not to put her purse, paper work and the mail on the kitchen counter. They go in a certain place on her side of the closet. It is funny because she used to fuss about the kitchen being a mess. Now I think my standards have risen above hers and I expect for her not to create messes for me to look at. It is like I have taken over the organization of the house and the house is always clean now. The exact opposite of Pre-SAHD stage. When she used to fuss and complain I would use a leading line of questioning to stop her in her tracks. Kind of like a defense attorney - Only ask questions that you know the answer she will have to give. Kind of like Remington did in a previous message.
Although some days I do no domestic work before 4:30 pm. I will just play: with my son, videogames, internet and workout then clean and cook right before the wife gets home at around 5:30. The house looks just as good, almost as if I had been cleaning all day. :lol:

[Remington]

If I can get the kids to nap I will turn the nice stereo on in the living room and the crappy one on in the kitchen and then clean up a bit in the kitchen. Do dishes and think about what to get ready for dinner. The good radio in the other room helps even if you can't hear it very well, but I move around the house real fast.

I will crank out a load of dishes in 3.2 seconds and then jump online and post and then read a book or 2 to the kids and then rush upstairs to put away clothes for about 15 seconds and then back online...

boom booom boom.... Once the coffee wears off..... I am pretty much riding out the rest of the afternoon till mom gets home. :lol:

[csimonl]

I know where you are coming from Remington. I thought I was a good multi-tasker at work. Now I can be doing 8 things at once. I look forward on putting that I my resume

[mjknapp]

I have gotten alot better at multi-tasking to, Doing dishes, making a bottle, and juice cups. Kicking the dog, and yelling at the cat. Makes for a fun 5 minutes!

[Remington]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Kicking the cat is the best part of making a bottle! :lol:

[mjknapp]

yeah right, I even get to kick the cat when I am not making a bottle, Oh the joys of life

[tt3]

:(
The cat hides from me all day now until Val gets home.
:twisted:
I wonder why that is?!?
:lol:

[Remington]

Maybe our cats can get together sometime and we can have a cat kicking party. :twisted: :twisted:

:evil:

[tt3]

Muwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaa :twisted:

Tell ya what, I'll let my wife's out tonight and if he shows up in a few weeks at your doorstep, kick away! :lol: :lol:

oh, I'm sorry, I mean, really, he's 12yrs old, declawed in the front and overweight... that'd just be mean.
:twisted: :twisted:

oh, ok, just kidding... :twisted:

[Dadaland]

My wife arrives home between 7:30 & 8:30 pm always a half hour later then she says.I have Dinner ready tables set house is clean. Not like the old days when I came home 7:00 pm, no dinner, sink and counter full of fossilised dirty dishes, take clean ones from dish washer (cupboard) as required.through some prefabricated frozen lazagna in oven for an hour. over eat, fall a sleep on couch exhausted, get to pile of crap on weekend or when you run out of disheswhich ever comes first.


I dual task all day long, I'm the master of flexability. depending on naps and baby's mood he's a happy child 90% of the time but even if he's crying if I smile at him the tears dry up and he start's to smile too.



I have some advice for new fathers.

1. paint and decorate before their born.

2.through out all the crap you dont need or sell it.

3. get all the cupbords closets and places that have gathered crap
before the baby's 5 mo old . It'll give you some thing to do you can finally get organized, you'll know where every thing is and every thing will
have it's place , and you can make it safe for baby before they start to crawl gotta go