needs a wife
March 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM maybe it's just me, but i need a wife.
1) she needs to be an accountant/financial planner: balancing my checkbook, getting bills sent out on time, helping me to get ahead and look towards the future. while doing this it would also be great if,
2) she also needs mad organizational skills: helping me find a place for each of my piles of chaos, organizing the toy room, the kids clothes, kids shoes, and my art supplies so that i can finally breathe.
3) know what else she could help me with? cooking healthily on a budget. the poop hits the fan with children/mama's patience at about 5:30 each day. how convenient that it comes down right at dinner time! when this happens i find myself just reaching for the pasta-roni and wishing away the minutes until bedtime.
4) another thing, i'm a goddess with the laundry, good with school, good with bathtimes, bedtimes, and booktimes; so it's not like she'd be doing everything! but if she found joy in doing the dishes and scrubing the tub (my arms are too short!) well, she'd be just about perfect.
when i walk into my bathroom i catch a view of that *perfect woman,* if i just had patience enough to wait for her to do it all.
Reader Comments (4)
You don't need a wife. You need an Erin Bigler. Organization, budgets, and healthy (cheapish) meal plans are my specialty. Oh, and have you noticed my gorilla arms? Seriously, when I let them hang my fingertips about brush my knees, and as the daughter of a marine, I know all too well the power of a little elbow-grease applied to a dirty tub. My dad used to check the tough spots the whole house over with a white glove. You think I could make this stuff up? 'm gonna come help you. I really really am.
I love this post. Wouldn't it be great if we all had a wife to help us with those things. Your honesty is beautiful and so is this photograph of you.
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Lisa Delzer ~ me too!!!!
Katie Dean Hymer ~ I think having Tim laid off for1 1/2 years was the best thing that happened to us! I went back to work, and he became my wife! Now he knows how to do all the wifely things I used to. ;)
Brookeh Thacker Call ~ I need one too! That way I could be a student and mom and not have to worry about the cooking, cleaning, finances. She can't have my hubby though! By the way. I think you are amazing for doing everything you do. Your kids have a fantastic Momma!
Rebecca Stuart ~Yeah, it would all be good the 1st week, then she'll begin to complain that you don't pay attention to her enough or tell her you love her, she has too much to do, cry because she never gets out of the house and ask you continually if the outfit she's wearing makes her "look fat."
Jenica Simons McKenzie ~ hahahaha!
Kristina Barrera Putter ~ Great one, Becky!!! I would totally love it more if it wasn't so true.... ha ha ha ha
Jan Workman Robison ~ I've found that it's much easier to make something for dinner earlier in the day (usually during nap time) and have it ready to just throw in the oven or to put something in the crock pot, because by 5:30 I am frazzled and exhausted and don't want to cook either.
I love this! I need a wife, too! I was just sitting in my cubicle discussing this with my coworkers. "I am open to polygamy. I am THAT tired. Get the other wife to make dinner." :)