Comments on: Two’s company

By: bon bon

bon bon — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:25:06 +0000

i’m still rather enjoying easy peasy lemon squeezy.
that’s a parental phrase if i ever heard one!

By: Morticia

Morticia — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:58:55 +0000

If you superglue them to the sofa they can only make a mess immediately around them and can’t wander into mantraps *grin*

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:09:34 +0000

Getting dudelet to tidy up after himself is my current project when we’re left to ourselves. I’ll get on to training him to stack the dishes in the dishwasher when we can afford a new set of crockery.

I really want to see how you define the ‘naughtiness scale’! Would it start with ‘mild negativity’ and work through to ‘major non-local conflagration’ via ‘downloading anarchists cookbook’?

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:03:58 +0000

I’ll clean the house properly after the kids are grown.

By: L.A. Daddy

L.A. Daddy — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:13:58 +0000

Oh, man, I was slightly there at one point. When LA Toddler was born, my wife took off 10 weeks for her maternity leave. Then I took 8 weeks off after that for my turn. It was a scary prospect, for sure.

I did manage to get through it, but the house was never as neat and tidy as I had promised. Dinner was never made and we had a lot of delivery. But I did manage to relax every afternoon when it was time for the nap. That was the point that I remembered to breathe…