I have a wife!!!!

[Danestress]

Tra la la la la!

YOu know how sometimes women on this board will say that they need a wife? To cook meals, take care of details etc?

Well, my MIL has been living with us for a few weeks - she's not here forever - just until she finds a place to live in town. But meanwhile, if I am out doing errands, I come home and find dinner made. When I am teaching math, she will do the breakfast dishes. She has taken over the laundry, and it's all folded in lovely squares and left on our bed.

This weekend DH and I are leaving for a little get-away (read, he has a conference and I am tagging along) in Charleston. We get to just sort of leave. No kenneling the dog, no worrying about the kids, no having to set lights on timers or ask neighbors to get the mail and take the garbage to the curb.

I must say, wives really are wonderful!

[Virginia Dawn]

You lucky dog! ;-)

[JFS in IL]

Your m-i-l sounds like a gem! Will you lend her out??? :D

[DollyM]

Yeah, you are a lucky dog. For years, when my mother was younger, she did our laundry every week. She lived in town and would come over while I was at work and do the laundry and leave those lovely square piles of clean clothes.

Even when DD was born, Mom kept this up - until she just got too old and her dementia started to interfere. It was lovely and a blessing when I was struggling to HS and keep up with the kids (well, I only have two but somehow it seemed like a struggle at the time.)

We do our own laundry now of course, but the teen kids help ;o)

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

Mazeltov! :D

I have one, too. Only mine has certain, erm, male benefits attached. :blush5:
The only complaints I have in the whole housekeeping dept is a) his aversion to even infrequent dusting (that impossibly high standard that I set previously, the bi-monthly dust-fest) and b) less nutritious meals than I like. But hey, I don't have to cook them, and there's always salad fixin's somewhere in the house.

[Cadam]

You are letting her get her own place in town! I have a nice place for her right here. Wow, that is very cool.

[TraceyS/FL]

Congrats!!!

My MIL was here for too long, i can assure you, NOTHING wifely in that visit ;)

[Danestress]

You are letting her get her own place in town! I have a nice place for her right here. Wow, that is very cool.

Well, I really wish we had a better set up, because I would happily have her for much longer or even forever, if she could have more privacy and us too. But we actually only have three real bedrooms, and I think she's pretty ready to have her own place - she's lived with her own mother as a caretaker for several years, and I think she misses having privacy and autonomy. But I am moving her into an apartment quite close by.

[elegantlion]

Oh, how divine! Before ds was born and I worked my dh would have the laundry done and dinner decided before I even came home. I miss those days! Enjoy your wife.

[Shanna]

Your m-i-l sounds like a gem! Will you lend her out??? :D

:iagree:

[Sharon in SC]

I know what you mean! I give my sister and mom (who live together) the devil speaking to how much *easier* life is when you have a wife (like they do)! ;-D

[Heather in the Kootenays]

I'm jealous.

And I remember when I was a single career woman how much harder my life was than the guys who had their wives to take in the drycleaning, pay the bills, do the shopping, cook the meals etc.

[Elisabeth in IL]

so I have my wife back. It is so nice to have someone help with all the day-to-day stuff. Unfortunately my dad had to come back as well, so I have two husbands now as well. :w00t: ;)