Cleaning the bathroom. Oh, you mean garden chore? That would be pruning the Westerland rose, closely followed by pruning the rest of the yard. (Yes, that one rose is more daunting than the whole yard!) As Westelle said there's so much of it to do. I've already dedicated that chore to next weekend. The good part is that I have a new (barely used) chipper/shredder that makes short order of turning the clippings into tiny pieces that I use as mulch or add to the compost pile. I used to spend hours cutting everything with my little Felco pruners.... sometimes also clipping my fingers. Jen

I don't like any of it but if budgeting and paying bills is a household chore I actually do like doing that. I think of household chores as cleaning. I pay someone to do just about everything at home - not laundry. DH and I both do laundry and I don't mind that. I rarely iron anything. We have a weekend lake place and I do all my own house work there - where I happen to be on "vacation" this week. I've spent nearly two full days doing all that stuff I despise. Vacuuming, dusting, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning carpet stains, washing windows, plus grocery shopping for holiday entertaining, laundry and some yard work. At least I'm getting some exercise plus I get to do it in a great setting. And I'm all done now except for cooking and entertaining guests and I like that part.

You're welcome....Hope they feel better soon. I remember the days of having three sick toddlers. :( Tina, I shoot (but not critters unless they are rabid) and I'll kill a poisonous snake in a heartbeat (know too many who have lost pets to them), then hang the skin in the den........but the thing you wouldn't guess by seeing me is that I was in the Army Reserve back in the day (87th MAC). We ran war games east of the Mississippi River. I qualified Expert with an M16 in Basic Training (helped that I knew how to shoot before I got there ;) ). I enjoyed basic training (even PT at 5am), and loved sleeping in tents and getting dirty. Sad thing is, I retired when I was pregnant with DD1 (1983) and I just missed out on the changeover from OD Green to Camo!! >:( I told DH I had "been once and didn't ever have to go back again." ; )

Amber im not to good at writting or even trying to explain myself. please bare with me. this is my first time being on this site. I guess i came on here looking for advice. and how to fix the problems.When i was going to put flowers at her grave it was out of respect for her and my husband. But on the inside of my heart It hurts for her and her husband. I guess maybe i expected to much from his kids to say thank you. I realize that everyone has a different way of being. I guess im not sure what i was looking for from them. maybe i wanted to show them that i am a nice person and to just give me a chance is all. I am not here to try and take my husbands wifes place.. all i did was fall in love with someone my husband. I love him very much and there are times i can see him looking very sad and my heart hurts for him because he has lost his life partner. I know he loves me or he wouldnt have married me.. but it was neither of there choices for this to happen.I have been told things from his kids like why dont i go rent the place across the street or like the new pots and pans i got never used yet but i did wash them and his daughter smelled them and said they smelled like fish. or how she went through the freezer and chekced dates of meat in it and said it needed to be cleaned out.. i had only been here in this house 2 weeks. but im also not use to having a freezer the big ones. i was lucky to have a pound of hamambuger in mine. so i did clean it out. then she went through the cuboards and looked at the dates threr were some that were a year old so i got that cleaned out.. then went around saying there is cob webs. she then asked me when my birthday was i told her and she said i will never remember that. each time things are said and done i am not mean to them or rude why because i love my husband im not going to make waves . he loves his kids so i will do what ever i have to so that things will run smooth. his son is addicited to drugs bad i have spent hours with him on the phone telling me he is going to take his life .for 4 years i have been having to put up with this. but i do it.even through it stress me out. he has stole from us alot and im not talking chump change. when his daughter come here the first thing they want to know is what there name is on in case anything happens to there dad. for 4 years i have been telling them they need to talk to him. they talk bad about my husband to me bad things and when they are done they tell me if i say anything to my husband they will deny it. if thats the case why do they need to keep saying things. he is my husband and i love him. they say if you want anything from him just be nice..the only thing i want from my husband is for us to have a good marriage. All the things i do for them i do it because my husband asks me to.. but i am almost at the point where i dont want to.