Instead of our resolutions for 2009

20/12/2008 at 17:47

Your partner in 2009?
I would like mine to stop playing the hideous xbox so much!!!!!!!!

DawnG

20/12/2008 at 20:26

I would like John to pick up after himself!!!

Twin1 Tasha

20/12/2008 at 21:14

Brilliant post pauline!!!!!!!!

I would like Gillan to stop having the twisted view that caring for OUR children is my JOB!!!!!!!! (he's got that idea from his mum)!

x.Laura.x

20/12/2008 at 23:36

For him to get a job that pays fairly well and makes him happy

and if possible a mute switch fitted on him for when he flies off on a rant...

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theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

21/12/2008 at 00:48

Cut the umbilical cord that connects him to the sofa.
To be able to do something without being asked.Even when he's not feeling guilty/after something.
Tidy up after himself.Put stuff in the right place,don't just put it anywhere you feel like.
Put his dirty boxers IN the laundry basket not on it.The lid does come off.
Less xbox.
Teach himself DIY and read the instructions.I don't have the time anymore and the house is falling apart.
Cook,I'd love it if he could cook.
There's more,but it's starting to feel mean now.He is only a man.

CherylE

21/12/2008 at 12:58

Sorry sounds really sad but mine would be for him to stay exactly as he is - guess we are still in newly wed stage though after only getting married in May!

sarahb

21/12/2008 at 13:23

haha fab post Pauline

I dont want to change much really I would just like Sam to cook more and to put his clothes in the laundry baskets and not leave them gathering in a pile at the side of his bed LOL

ginger_wookey

21/12/2008 at 13:38

lol Laura at your 2nd point!

I'd just want to see him less grumpy - or at least to not take it out on me when he is

harrisonsmummy

21/12/2008 at 19:07

i would like hubby to realise how good he's got it and to have the brains to clean or tidy something that needs doing for example the ironing needed putting away for over a week coz i went on strike and he walked past it every nite for over a week!...eventually i did it! what a MUG!!

21/12/2008 at 19:19

Cook more is a good one!

Nicolette

21/12/2008 at 19:24

There seems to be a theme developing here.

I would like mine to understand that being a parent is full-time, not just when he feels like it; that we are jointly responsible for them, not just, again, when he gets his 'dad' hat on; that is is actually hard work trying to keep the house tidy with three children doing their utmost to make it messy, whilst still managing to feed, clothe, cuddle and play with said children; that there are only 24 hours in the day and I'd like to be able to sleep for some of them; that I am a person not just a mummy and a housewife - if it was stimulating bringing up children and hoovering all day he really would want to do more of it.

Having a bad day.

linz0209

21/12/2008 at 21:36

to be more consistent.

He either does loads of tiding up and hoovers - when I am tring to have a lie down so I will notice it more. Or does sod all.

To understand my nutty illness alittle more. He thinks I use my Borderline Personaility Disorder as an excuse for my sometimes strange, impatient and impulsive behavoiur. Weirdly all three are symtoms. Funny that.

Lucy

22/12/2008 at 20:03

i would like it if Shawn was more patient with Ben and if we could agree on how to discipline him.. (having grown up in South Africa going to a military school - he tends to a be a tad hard on little man).

otherwise i can't complain - he does all the cooking and will clean when nagged!

Caroline

22/12/2008 at 20:21

I would like Gareth to realise that with a toddler, working full time as a teacher and now with a baby I have very little free time to do things like housework and so tend to do only what is needed!!

It would also be nice if he realised that I am always skint as I run the house, he seems to forget this and will happily spend money on non-essentials when all my money goes on essentials!! The kids are my first priority, not DVD's, IPods or trains!!!!!!

theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

22/12/2008 at 20:49

Trains?!!!I'm with you on the DVDS,and our other curse is XBOX,games,book to accompany forementioned game,maybe another game.Oh there's not enough left to pay the bills?Well,never mind the Tax Credit arrives Friday.Oh,and while your at Tescos get me ...bottles of Coke,oh and those blah,blah,blah....I think it goes what's mine is mine but what yours is,well mine too.!I buy what we need,but it's amazing how much goes on this that and not much.men!

x.Laura.x

22/12/2008 at 21:14

OMG Those bloody magazines for with the games, thats not a magazine its huge and costs HOW MUCH!!! and andrew always wants bottles of lucozade sport its bloomin expensive!

Lucy

22/12/2008 at 21:22

i know what you mean!! Shawn loves car magazines - and we often end up with FOUR a month, each of them costing over 4 quid each.. Have managed to get him off the Coke (Coca Cola, not the other stuff hehe).. but every time we manage to scrape together money to go out for a meal (rare) he has to have at least two drinks and then at least one coffee..

he has also started spending a fair amount of money on itunes.. grr..

x.Laura.x

22/12/2008 at 21:56

i get all the music i want thru andrews brother but andrews always after cds that he knows wont be allowed on!

theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

22/12/2008 at 22:06

Can't you download it for free.Sorry ,I don't know,I'm completely ignorant of these things.I am however looking at an "official game guide "to latest game,costing 14.99.That's just naughty,and I bought HIS mother's Christmas pressies.It was just assumed.Just had the "little boy lost"act.Standing in the kitchen,takeaway on plate"there's no tray's."Yes I've been washing up allday,and washing clothes,and cooked dinner,and cleaned a bit,and put clothes away....Didn't actually get round to the trays which needed a wipe.Shame on me!Poor baby!Had to hide and giggle,I'm sorry

Lucy

22/12/2008 at 22:22

i don't believe in paying for music when you can listen to it on the radio or put music channels on sky.. itunes charge 79pence for a single, but somehow we managed to rack up a bill of 30 quid last month! he also tends to buy very heavy metal music, which i wouldn't say was my favourite..

AND our phone bill has been over 50 quid for two months in a row (he's the only one who uses the phone).. fair enough, his family are in South Africa, but this month it was 65 quid, and he uses the 2p a minute numbers..

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