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09/14/2005 09:22:39 PM · #26 |
| REX - that is funny!!! OMG I laughed my ass off!! |
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09/14/2005 09:32:54 PM · #27 |
| holy crap -- that really is funny ... did you see the guy holding the sign up ...his wife proably says to him " I will do anything my love as long as I don't have to sleep with you!!" eeewww |
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09/14/2005 10:29:08 PM · #28 |
| LOL.. sounds like us stay at home mum's that have an 'interest' ( such as this great hobby and website ) are all in the same boat... i love my life, and yes my house isn't as tidy as the stay at home mum's from the 50's, but i can gaureentee im a lot happier all round... i have no pressure, and hey.. the kids are only 'home' for such a short time in our lives, the house can stay clean when their gone.. not now.. it's play time now.... i bet if you asked a 60-80 year old who is living alone with a sparkly clean house that never get's messy, what they would rather, and they'd say our messy, loud, happy house's anyday... remember our glasses are half full, not half empty... we have plenty of time later to 'worry' about clean house's.... |
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09/14/2005 10:52:53 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by roadrunner:
...the house can stay clean when their gone.. not now.. it's play time now.... i bet if you asked a 60-80 year old who is living alone with a sparkly clean house that never get's messy, what they would rather, and they'd say our messy, loud, happy house's anyday... remember our glasses are half full, not half empty... we have plenty of time later to 'worry' about clean house's.... |
The only time that my house stays clean is when the kids have not woken up yet. To that end, I only "straighten" unless company is coming.
I too, have been spending way too much time on this site. I think I have photography obsessive compulsive disorder.
All I do in my spare time is take pictures, edit them, and look at new camera gear. I need to take a break before I burn out I think.
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09/15/2005 07:01:47 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by roadrunner:
remember our glasses are half full, not half empty... we have plenty of time later to 'worry' about clean house's.... |
Some of the best advice......
Since having kids one thing stays in my mind.....
The more time I spend with them now the more time they will spend with me when they get older.........My kids always come first. The house is material stuff that can be replaced and if my house is messy when you come over and you don't like it then you don't have to come over.
Message edited by author 2005-09-15 07:02:30.
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09/15/2005 07:31:07 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by 4ROGGYCHEF:
Lets assume your mom was a stay at home mom... and that your dad was at work all day.... now fast forward until now... when you send your mom - hopefully she is still living-- a mothers day card.. do you say thanks for rasing me to be such a productive man and nurturing me and just loving me... or does it say .. happy mothers day, thanks for everything, but you do know it was your job..
Never would you say that right... ?? |
Actually I've been on my own since I was 10 and have even lived on the streets for a couple of years. Finally after I got my empire going and refusing to talk to any and all my family she passed away. There obviously a lot more then you'll ever know but I thank nobody but myself. Everything I have I did it by myself with no help from anybody (and no I'm not complaining). All I was saying was that while I lived with her she (as best she could) taught us to look after ourselves. You ask did I ever thank her??? Thats a whole different storey. I didn't kill her and by not doing this WAS my thanks. I don't get over paid for what I do by having a heart or giving a rats ass about anybody. I hope this has answered your question.
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09/15/2005 07:32:02 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by 4ROGGYCHEF:
i hope so =--- sometimes i feel like a raving lunatic.. i love to argue and sometimes get carried away.
please tell me notonline you were being harmless and not chauvanistic....please????? |
I was actually refering to the lazy people I know and not anybody's wife from here.
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09/15/2005 09:10:44 AM · #33 |
I'm male so I would be a househusband... ??
I live in a 3 bedroom apartement with my 2 kids, 2 & 4 year old, I got divorced 2 months ago. I go to college in the daytime and university at night, I run my own company, i'm a certified plumber, I take care of my kids, clean the house, wash the clothes, coock the food, and do everything needed, and I always have time to play with my kids, the only thing suffering is my photography, even though that's what I'm studying at college, there's not much time to play with my camera.
and I'm really lazy.. I just do what needs to be done, and then I relax :)
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09/15/2005 09:17:38 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by roadrunner:
i bet if you asked a 60-80 year old who is living alone with a sparkly clean house that never get's messy, what they would rather, and they'd say our messy, loud, happy house's anyday... remember our glasses are half full, not half empty... we have plenty of time later to 'worry' about clean house's.... |
Amen sista. My house is a train wreck most of the time, with three sons I am greatly outnumbered. In a few short years, though, the boys will be away at school or having their own families, and my house will probably be spotless...and silent. That scares me much worse than dust bunnies, kool-aid stains, and piles of laundry.
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09/15/2005 09:21:01 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by rex:
Originally posted by roadrunner:
remember our glasses are half full, not half empty... we have plenty of time later to 'worry' about clean house's.... |
Some of the best advice......
Since having kids one thing stays in my mind.....
The more time I spend with them now the more time they will spend with me when they get older.........My kids always come first. The house is material stuff that can be replaced and if my house is messy when you come over and you don't like it then you don't have to come over. |
AND even better advice still... i must steal that saying... " if the house is messy to your standards... don't come-a-knockin'... heheh.. i like that one... im not big on visitors anyway, so it suits me fine...
after 13 years of heads down bum up raising three under three, i feel i 'deserve' a little 'me' time... after all, i devoted myself enitrely to my kids for that long, no hobby, no part time job, and certainly no me time...i did EVERYTHING for them.... and i think that can be a bad thing when they get to the age they are now... gee whizz, i was still cutting up there meat for them until last year... how bad is that....lol.. |
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09/15/2005 09:22:20 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
Originally posted by roadrunner:
i bet if you asked a 60-80 year old who is living alone with a sparkly clean house that never get's messy, what they would rather, and they'd say our messy, loud, happy house's anyday... remember our glasses are half full, not half empty... we have plenty of time later to 'worry' about clean house's.... |
Amen sista. My house is a train wreck most of the time, with three sons I am greatly outnumbered. In a few short years, though, the boys will be away at school or having their own families, and my house will probably be spotless...and silent. That scares me much worse than dust bunnies, kool-aid stains, and piles of laundry. |
messy moms who love the time with their kids -- UNITE!!!!!!!!111
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09/15/2005 11:13:41 AM · #37 |
| notonline-- your story explains alot... and you seem to me to have turned out pretty good ... i admire you |
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09/15/2005 11:21:51 AM · #38 |
| oh and about the koolaid stains someone was talking about..get this... my son finds a package of koolaid in a drawer.. mind you he's two.. I thought he was watching a movie in his room... he was sooo quite and that when we all get nervous.. i come around the corner and he was eating this red die and he got it all over the old carpet....thank god its being repalced...but what a mess .. i laughed and put him in the tub and he and his sister were so exited about the color of the water and the way it smelled. So i have a couple of extra packets just for this reason... only do this if you have linoleum , cause when they spill the water over the sides.. what a bigger mess |
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09/15/2005 12:33:20 PM · #39 |
Well, I am a "house dad" as my wife has a sympathetic nerve condition that can get quite bad sometimes and I am left to battle with looking after her and our 5 kids so for me, sometimes getting out to tackle a challenge is a challenge in itself as unfortunately, life must come first!
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09/15/2005 12:41:17 PM · #40 |
"One of the benefits of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
--A.A. Milne |
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