Quiet time vs Husband...vent

[smileyface]

Oh gosh I totally understand! This must be an all husbands thing! My hubby is so noisy during nap it drives me crazy! He will throw pants in the dryer(our dryer is upstairs) during nap. He will let the dog upstairs during nap. He leave dishes all throughout the house. He slams doors turns on lights, talks his normal loud voice in the upstairs hall during nap. It drives me crazy! These men don't seem to understand that nap is our only break, and if the kids wake up from a short nap, they are cranky. It is frustrating, and I much prefer when he's gone to work. The house is cleaner and things get done my way! And, for heaven's sake, the house is quiet during nap!!

[mimi]

Funny to see this post today. My stoopid husband has been home ALL week. There's a work slowdown, and their new contracts don't start til Tue.

Sadly and tragically, he has come down with a ManCold. This is the same cold that I had, our three kids had and we managed to be upright and go to school/work while suffering through this incredible illness. It has incapacitated husband. He's been in bed since this past Tues.

I can't use our room for naps, so all week, I have been doubling up bad sleepers, which has amounted to everyone NOT napping, which results in crabby kids, and a crabby Alphaghetti for not getting her quiet time.

Go back to work now, honey. Get out of MY house.

So funny Alphagehetti My hubby is recovering from his malady and is thankfully back to work though I still get the mucus updates(thickness, frequency) now over the phone.

[eoinsmom]

Same kind of thing here...my husband works two weeks on and one week off, and goes bananas when he is home for a week with a house full of kids! He is used to being in a camp, where food just appears for him at meal times. He often complains about the kid meals, and is grumpy because there is no food ready for him, kids running around being noisy and toys around! And then he wants to have an afternoon nap, but there is sometimes a kid napping in our bedroom....he has reluctantly agreed to hide in his office and play video games all day He's even gotten himself a little fridge so he can stock it up for the week and only leave to shower or use the bathroom....made things much nicer around here. It was like having another kid in the house though!

[DisneyPrincess]

I always said men are real babies... LITERALLY ! Another child in the house indeed !