Such cute pics! Tricia, your son is adorable and 4's, your family looks like they are a blast!
Warning BIG husband vent--you've been warned!
I ordered the furniture and hopefully it will be here by the November Bar Mitzvah. If not, there will be a mattress and box springs in that room and tough cookies if things aren't perfect. My DH and I had it out over that issue during lunch today. He just piles more and more on his plate and I don't get it. He is so short fused right now and is losing his temper at his family over the dumbest things, but he acts like everything has to be so perfect before November. It's just not going to be and I can't drive myself crazy making it that way. As long as the house is cleaned up and we have food to feed people and places to sleep, that's all I care about. And the places to sleep don't have to be perfect. And if that's not good enough, they can stay in a hotel.
Our lunchtime argument was over painting. We're having the guestroom (AKA my daughter's room--the room that we are getting the new furniture for) and the study painted (which involves moving tons of books, 2 computers, school supplies, etc, etc) and my DH wanted to have the laundry room painted, which I thought was a silly idea. First of all, who cares if it's painted--the room is little, between the kitchen and the garage, and it doesn't really matter. Also, we'd have it painted the same color as the kitchen/family room, but before too many years those rooms will need to be repainted and we'll probably change color. So what color would we do the laundry room? But more than anything, there are a bunch of shelves, piled high, in the laundry room and we'd have to clear everything off the shelves, sort through it all, take down the shelves, and put them back up. Not a big deal if we didn't have other things going on, but it looks like the timeline would be at around the same time that the invitations are done and need to be mailed.
But more than anything, my DH's philosophy is that he keeps piling stuff on--nevermind that he's totally stressed out and snapping at everyone. And it doesn't matter if everything is perfect!
We had a list of things that we wanted to get done, we agreed on the list, figured out how we would get things done and who would do them basically, and now he's wanting to add things. I don't get it. And all this with his job going down the toilet, the reduced pay, but working long hours, every evening, often on weekends, and no time to look for another job.
OK, I'll stop now or I'll be over the word limit for a post...
imsorry said:
Hey 4's: is that you in the bra behind your son?
