"Desperate Housewives" and "Lazy Husbands"
First, let me say that I just love Easter. By far, its the holiday with the best candy.
This time last year, I had gestational diabetes, and felt fricken cheated out of my Cadbury eggs. I am making up for lost time this year. I bought a boatload of Easter candy this weekend, including Peeps. Love the Peeps. Yum.
OK. On to more interesting topics. I watched "20/20" last week, and they had a feature on "Desperate Housewives", and how that show has struck a chord with women across the country. (I personally don't watch it). At any rate, one of the features was that of the "Lazy Husband". I said, "Oh, THIS I gotta see." They showed one woman, who had a 2-year old child, and a set of triplets, and she was the stay-at-home-mom who handled all the details of the house. When her DH got home, did he offer to help out? Did he ask her if she needed a break? No. He went out for a BIKE RIDE. They gave her a camera to film the goings on in her house. They showed her keeping her four screaming children occupied while her husband walked past them as if they didn't even exist -- because he needed to "decompress". She showed footage of her husband's clothes on the floor, right where he'd dropped them, and I said "OMG, this is MY life they're showing". I put a laundry basket near DH's desk, in the hopes that he'd throw his clothes in there. It generally never happens.
With all the feline puking, its a wonder his clothes aren't caked in vomit. I don't even want to think about it.
They showed footage from the TV show where a husband is taking his kids out to the park. He says to the wife, "OK, got the diaper bag, the juice boxes, we're going to the park. We'll be gone for a couple of hours, so enjoy the vacation."
The wife looks up at him and says, "While you're gone, I'll be washing clothes, paying bills, and cooking dinner. What part of that sounds like a vacation to you?"
To which I said, "AMEN and ROCK on, sister."
At least I know I'm not alone in this situation. I've put Dr. Joshua Coleman's book, "The Lazy Husband" on my Amazon wish list, in case anyone wants to buy it for me. LOL.
This time last year, I had gestational diabetes, and felt fricken cheated out of my Cadbury eggs. I am making up for lost time this year. I bought a boatload of Easter candy this weekend, including Peeps. Love the Peeps. Yum.
OK. On to more interesting topics. I watched "20/20" last week, and they had a feature on "Desperate Housewives", and how that show has struck a chord with women across the country. (I personally don't watch it). At any rate, one of the features was that of the "Lazy Husband". I said, "Oh, THIS I gotta see." They showed one woman, who had a 2-year old child, and a set of triplets, and she was the stay-at-home-mom who handled all the details of the house. When her DH got home, did he offer to help out? Did he ask her if she needed a break? No. He went out for a BIKE RIDE. They gave her a camera to film the goings on in her house. They showed her keeping her four screaming children occupied while her husband walked past them as if they didn't even exist -- because he needed to "decompress". She showed footage of her husband's clothes on the floor, right where he'd dropped them, and I said "OMG, this is MY life they're showing". I put a laundry basket near DH's desk, in the hopes that he'd throw his clothes in there. It generally never happens.
With all the feline puking, its a wonder his clothes aren't caked in vomit. I don't even want to think about it.
They showed footage from the TV show where a husband is taking his kids out to the park. He says to the wife, "OK, got the diaper bag, the juice boxes, we're going to the park. We'll be gone for a couple of hours, so enjoy the vacation."
The wife looks up at him and says, "While you're gone, I'll be washing clothes, paying bills, and cooking dinner. What part of that sounds like a vacation to you?"
To which I said, "AMEN and ROCK on, sister."
At least I know I'm not alone in this situation. I've put Dr. Joshua Coleman's book, "The Lazy Husband" on my Amazon wish list, in case anyone wants to buy it for me. LOL.
posted by scrappintwinmom @ 1:36 PM
2 Comments:
At 2:34 PM,
J&J's Mom said…
Ever watched Nanny 911? I can't believe there are more men than not like this out there! Can't say mine is lazy...but he NEVER notices anything. There will be a pile of laundry folded neatly at the foot of the bed for a week!!! "Oh, I thought you wanted it there?" whatever....
At 11:08 AM,
Anonymous said…
I like Desperate H too. I wish I came up with that concept! You know the creator is a guy right?
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