They are sacred in this house. Always have been since I can remember. We drink too much and watch shite on the telly. That is what we do. Even when I have been pregnant DH kept the tradition going on his own, more often than not finding his way upstairs at 4 in the morning having fallen asleep with a glass in his hand.
It is what keeps us who we are, stupidly drunk, talking shit and generally catching up. Now I know "most" housewives have the luxury of DH's who always do the tea, or bath bed routine. I don't. He leaves first thing - we are often up to but he gets himself sorted, attaches himself to the blackberry and goes. A normal (i.e. early) home is 6:30p.m. I can guarentee at least one is in bed by then with the other two close to follow. I then have the struggle of preparing tea versus getting toddlers into bed. More recently it has been 7p.m. last night as he had to spend the day in the big smoke South of the border (London) he was back at 10 p.m.
Now my shifts are not great, always up at 7 a.m. if I am lucky, I like adult time so don't tend to go to bed till 11pm but if I do go early I can guarentee small one will want a milk at 11p.m. anyway. Then I hope not to be woken again, if I am lucky only one child will be awake in the night and only once. This of course is rare, last night the baby was awake for over an hour shouting and wanting to play, the big one had issues with something or other that I cannot even recall, but was probably she couldn't touch the door or the light was not quite right. I am always greeted in the morning by at least one poo and poo bum to wipe.
But, you get on and deal with all these things, along with all the washing, cleaning house, picking up flaming beads and bits of play dough, finding pants all over the house, toys everywhere and not getting a hot cup of coffee (that baby has a sensor I am sure - be it 2 seconds after she falls asleep or an hour, she smells it and demands attention).
And tonight I was really looking forward to Big brother, too many gins and some chips for tea.
He's going to be late. I know not his fault BUT IT'S FRIDAY. I have gin. But I cannot go and get myself some chippies, I have a baby asleep and two toddlers who can only turn on the charm and be pleasant to each other once the put their night time jarmies on.
So, I am unhappy, in need of a rant. I know when push comes to shove it is no great deal. BUT IT IS TO ME! I am ready for my de-stress time. I was looking forward to my hangover (in that perverse way that we do).
Ho hum.
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Oh Snob,
I feel your pain there. My husband said he'd be home by 6 having left for London at 6.30am on Weds. It's Friday and he's not yet home (8pm!!)
He's not of course. If he says he'll come home at x time, but i have to add 2 hours every time.
If he makes it home it is never before 7, ever, and he is always in bed by 9 due to being tired. I stay up with BB and possibly the teenager for company,
Not good is it?
I am now allowed out to play EVERY Friday night but as a consequence I do get to spend Saturdays confined to the house. I sometimes round up other Saturday night loners and drag them round for a bottle of wine or two. Hope you got to enjoy your gin on Saturday while I was still nursing Friday's hang over.
We have the opposite... DH is always here. He is working from home right now (and has been since Feb) so we have to stay downstairs, tip toe around, keep quiet when the phone rings, keep DD from going to show daddy her things etc. I feel I cant use the PC when he is around. It is a pain. He can then waltz downstairs for lunch, spend 5mins telling me how busy he is before he disappears back upstairs to eat his lunch in peace. At 5.55pm he again watzes downstairs where his dinner is often 5mins away from being ready. He will come down for a cup of coffee at the wrong moment and try and intervene in a an argument/tantrum DD is having. I wish I knew what he was doing up there because I am bored of watching the pennies.
No need to panic girls! He got back in time - woo hooo and I managed to order my second wii fit too. Fingers crossed this one makes it across the border!
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