tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039340702708154412.post2766123898789785412..comments2023-06-13T00:26:23.821-07:00Comments on Laugh, Mom: Things are better than they used to beAudreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242035758680703320noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039340702708154412.post-53154549666843605462011-04-11T19:19:37.256-07:002011-04-11T19:19:37.256-07:00My boys have grown and moved out (for now anyway)....My boys have grown and moved out (for now anyway). I can relate, too. I did work outside the home full time (3-12 hour shifts per week as a nurse also wiping butts and cleaning up messes). But work was my reprieve from the madness! As for spouses home all day.....my husband has not worked for the past 2 years. However, the positive side of that is that he does do almost all of the cleaning and cooking. I now work 4 days/week with weekends off. On that one day I do have off during the week I tell him, "you need to find something to do which is not at this house." Solitude is still precious!Donna S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039340702708154412.post-31661863163396349322011-04-08T19:38:51.361-07:002011-04-08T19:38:51.361-07:00I wish I could hug you. And then take you out for ...I wish I could hug you. And then take you out for a drink. xoMeghanhttp://www.meghangwine.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039340702708154412.post-5487264660784188852011-04-08T07:15:00.942-07:002011-04-08T07:15:00.942-07:00you're so not alone. i'm having trouble a...you're so not alone. i'm having trouble articulating how and why, but you're not alone.Livnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039340702708154412.post-35829247460889400782011-04-08T07:13:50.130-07:002011-04-08T07:13:50.130-07:00You are not alone. I don't know if knowing tha...You are not alone. I don't know if knowing that helps you, but it offers me some solace to know I'm not alone.Angie [A Whole Lot of Nothing]https://www.blogger.com/profile/02242115803102270369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039340702708154412.post-32951415135710005592011-04-08T06:35:44.156-07:002011-04-08T06:35:44.156-07:00Exactly Amy. It's just hard to keep from gett...Exactly Amy. It's just hard to keep from getting tunnel vision sometimes. I don't know how you managed with M. home for that long. I think D. would be GREAT at home with the kids if roles were reversed (and I had the same earning ability as him, which I don't), but the two of us at home at the same time, all the time.....<br />You have a full plate.Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01242035758680703320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039340702708154412.post-9634949058256067722011-04-08T06:27:08.818-07:002011-04-08T06:27:08.818-07:00Oh my gosh! I relate to this on so many levels!
I...Oh my gosh! I relate to this on so many levels!<br /><br />I think you know our history, so you know things are better than they used to be for us too.<br /><br />It wasn't peaches and cream having M home all day every day for 2 years, but there were benefits.<br /><br />Now, he works for someone else. Thank God! He's gone at least 12 hours a day, travels fairly regularly. We don't eat until 6:30 or 7:00 every night. The kids are starving by then and I'm pooped by then. But eating as a family is important to us, too. <br /><br />I'm too busy to work--at anything I get a check for anyway. I volunteer my but off and care for my ailing mom, too.<br /><br />I also have a kid who chews with his mouth open and another one who talks with food in his mouth.<br /><br />I clean up all the same stuff over and over like a hamster in a wheel.<br /><br />I make my kids cry sometimes too.<br /><br />Maybe I'm trying to say misery loves company. But in reality we're not miserable. We love our kids and our husbands! We love what we do on our own, too--the work for you, the volunteering for me. It gives us our own identity.<br /><br />We're just really tired, too.Amyhttp://www.mychaoticbliss.comnoreply@blogger.com