*ICK* I have a love/loathe relationship with the bloody thing, and my husband used to work for Nextel, so we have the two-way radio bit. I hate doing something and hearing the “beep beep beep” of my husband wanting something…”when are you coming home” “aren’t you done yet” “do you know what your son did” or another bit of bit of annoyance. Especially if it is in the middle of sewing night (you know where I am, what I am doing and how long it usually takes-why are you telling me the score of the game that I really don’t care about?)

It was useful in the car accident though, to call for help.

As a little aside…..when I had my 4th baby – we had just moved house and he was really an “after thought” – well actually he wasn’t a thought at all but hey! Anyway …my hubby then had to alter his work schedule so he minded him during the week while I worked and I had every weekend at home. Bear in mind our other children were 8, 13, and 15 at this point so he really only had one little person to worry about. So how was it that during the time he was house husband, in the first 2 years we had to replace 2 lounge carpets and a patio door…….all due to the fact that Daddy couldn’t quite get the grip of not leaving stuff lying around…paint, golf balls etc……Harry was having a field day LOL! May have been a hard lesson (and an expensive one) for him to learn , but I certainly got some credit for raising the other 3 after that :D

Jill

And how come when I call him on his cell phone, I’m the one that’s at fault because he received five phone calls between the three stinking teenagers within the last 10 minutes prior to my phone call? Why am I supposed to be clarvoyant?

I sure wish my mom had taken a few Saturdays to run to the store to grab a few things. My folks had five kids, and I can’t remember my mom ever taking any time for herself. I wish she had. It would have done her a lot of good, and it also would have helped we kids cultivate a closer relationship to our Dad BEFORE he was actually an old man.

Why is it men feel that it against the law to ask for directions when travelling anywhere? Rather than ask (which is of course the far more sensible way of handling the “I am not lost – just taking a short cut” scenario), we have to suffer going up and down the motorway/highway, Mum trying to placate the kids who are innocently pointing out that they have seen a ton of McD’s on the same stretch of the road ( albeit it is the SAME McD’s that we have passed at least 8 times)……..with Dad trying to bluff his way out of the situation! Thank heavens for Sat Nav is all I am going to say on the matter……I would like to meet the lady (hey it had to be a lady obviously ;))who invented it and hug her real tight :D
Jill :D