I have sooooo many pet peeves!  I find that when I am being approached with a pet peeve, my husband is usually at the surface of them.

Laundry my way~I ask my husband to do the laundry, well to you and I this consists of SEPERATING the clothes, than taking them to the washer, putting them on the proper cycle, putting them in the dryer, bringing them to the appropriate place, folding them, separating them, yes again, and then putting them away.  That is the way a normal person would do laundry, well here is the way my husband does laundry.

Laundry my husbands way~grabbing whatever is around, putting them in the washer, putting them in the dryer and he hopes that he can leave it in the drier for a couple of days (that way he doesn’t have to go to the basement to bring them up).  Finishing up he brings the laundry up and throws the clothes in a pile on the couch.  THE END.

In my eyes he really hasn’t done anything….the washer and dryer did the work, he didn’t separate them, and yes, now the dark clothes now have white towel lint all over them.  He didn’t fold them, so they are full of wrinkles, and to put them away, that’s a joke because they are just going to be thrown in a pile when he takes them off.

Dishes my way~Filling the dishwasher with everything small so that there will be more room on the counter top and hand washing the pots and pans.  Washing the counters and stove.  That’s it, I don’t think that this is asking a lot.  I don’t even expect the dishes to be dried,  just wash all of them.

Dishes my husbands way~Filling the dishwasher with pots and pans so that he can say that he can’t do anything else until the load in the dishwasher is done (oh, but he doesn’t turn the dishwasher on).  THE END.

When I ask him, “well, why didn’t you put all the small dishes in the dishwasher and wash all the pots and pans?”  He responds, “I don’t do pots and pans,”  or “I don’t do silverware!!”  So you are telling me that the dishwasher only does glasses and plates?!  Well if he doesn’t do pots and pans and he doesn’t do silverware, then guess who has to do it…….

Why is it so hard to rinse the sink after he shaves?  It would look like a war if we shaved our legs in the sink and didn’t rinse it.  So why is it so hard, the water is right there, it’s the 2000’s he doesn’t have to go to the well to fetch water.  It’s right there….it’s free!!!

Gross eh!!  Or there is this one…….

These aren’t my photo’s but this is a very accurate image of what happens in my bathroom sink.  And in some instances it is worse.  Most of the time there is hair on the wall as well.  Come on!  Really.

Putting Garbage in the garbage can, that seems pretty straight forward right, well here, it is a task and a half.  He seems to have an arm extension problem when it comes to simply putting the garbage in the garbage can.  He could be shelling eggs and the garbage can is right next to him, he would rather just put it on the counter, sink, or in a pot, and we definitely know that he doesn’t wash pots and pans. lol

Just get off your computer and help me please, “I will be there in a minute.”  An hour later…….I am sure we are familiar with this trend.

Isn’t just easier to do it ourselves sometimes? 

You’re not single anymore, don’t put the body pillow between us while we are sleeping.  Spoon me dammit!!  If your body is taking up half of the bed and now your body pillow is taking up an other quarter…..that doesn’t leave much room for me and your daughter that hops into bed every morning.

These are just a miniscule amount of pet peeves I have with my husband…… tell me what yours are!  Is there anything that your significant other does that drives you crazy?

If you have a child what do you do about temper tantrums?  I know that having a child you have to deal with all the crazy personality crisis’ that they have, but as we all say, our children seem to be a little bit smarter than we want to give them credit for.  She is a professional with playing her father and I.  If her father says no then she comes to me with the hopes that we have not spoke to on another and that I will say yes.  I do recall playing this game as well with my siblings but not at her age. 

Our family lives in a french community and we are English.  So that means that when she goes to school next year she will be going to a french school (hopefully).  I am extremely happy about this, since we are living in a bilingual society.

We have had different views from people; we will dramatize her is one, but I believe that she is too young to remember, they are sponges, but the majority say that it is wonderful.  I agree!  It will be wonderful………wouldn’t it be just like a grown-up going to a foreign country?  They would have to take their dictionary from whatever culture that they are going into and have to learn to adapt.  Every now and then they will find a nice person that can speak a bit of their language and have a breath a sigh of relief.  But see our daughter will be coming home every day.  So we aren’t throwing her to the wolves.

So my husband was called by the school and told that he is going to have to teach her some basics so that we aren’t throwing her into a sea of sharks.   Great, that’s fine.  Do you think that her know it all personality will allow him to guide her?  Absolutely not, she knows it all. 

Regardless my husband was going over words with our daughter and she didn’t want to do it anymore (after 10 minutes) so she had a hissyfit…..the kind of  hissyfit that sounds like we are murdering her.  The windows were open, well they are shut now….murder, bloody murder, for what, because she didn’t want to say words anymore.  So my husband did what any responsible parent should do and put her on a timeout.  Her room for 10 minutes, for the amount of crocodile tears that she maintained for that ten minutes, made me want to crawl in a box.  The noise that she makes is unbelievable.  Out of that little body…….

I know that we all face problems like this…..but really how is it that they have gotten smarter than our generation.   How do you deal with your child’s hissyfits?  Are you a time out kind of parent?