I said some words to Mat last night that I know will come back to bite me in the backside. You see, he was home early from work so after I prepared dinner, I thought it would be great for him to bath the kids and get on with the night time routine. Seeing as I had to go out at 7:30pm, I got myself ready with about half an hour to spare. Yes I could have helped with the kids, yes I could have cleaned the kitchen, packed up the toys, folded some washing blah blah blah, but instead I decided to lay on my bed and do NOTHING! It was wonderful just laying there and doing absolutely nothing at all...and I have to admit, I took some small pleasure in hearing Mat battling with the kids to brush their teeth, put pyjamas on and pack up the toys.
Anyway, while I was lying there, Mat came in a bit frazzled with the kids demands and asked if I could please help him out by doing the dishes before I left. I thought for a moment trying to come up with an excuse as to why I couldn't possibly do it, but nothing came to mind. So I went with honesty instead. I just said "Nope, I don't feel like it and I just don't want to do them". He was a little shocked with my answer, gob-smacked in fact. I went on to explain to him that it's not that I don't want to help him out, it is just that I don't want to do more dishes. I tried giving him the example that it would be like me asking him to come home and do carpentry after being at work all day doing carpentry. I get the "pleasure" of doing dishes every single flipping day, about 243 times a day. Between preparing meals for all of us, consuming them and cleaning up from them, some days it feels like I never even leave the kitchen!!
So last night, I stomped my foot and acted like a 3 year old by refusing to do the dishes. The discussion ended quite simply with Mat saying "I am going to remember this" so I am sure it will come back to bite me in the backside really soon...stay tuned :)
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