It has been 10 days since my last post, the lack of a post can simply be attributed to just being caught up in the mundane routine of life. Someone once told me that "Work expands to fill available time" and that is just what has been happening to me. There is the usual routine of waking up every day, the commute to work, getting caught up with the emails and projects in the office, plouging through lunch and then back home in the evening. Plans for cooking dinner, grocery shopping, a quick workout (if time permits), catching up on the latest on CNN news from the gustav and hanna hurricanes to the Sarah Palin controversies etc. there seems to be enough things to make the day fly by.
A weekend arrives and with it comes all the other household chores of laundy, ironing, trying out a new recipe, a car wash, more cleaning around the house etc. It just seems that there is always something to do around the house. A friend of mine who has a 1 year old kid was telling me the other day that these days she hardly has time to wash and comb her hair. She is a stay-home mom whose routine is 10 times worse than mine.
The life of a woman seems to be a 24x7 fill of chores and activities. Here in US, it becomes one routine, thankless job of doing everything by yourself. Yes, while we have the husbands and fathers who are more willing to help around the house these days than sitting in front of a TV with a remote forgetting the external world. It seems like many times, we women prefer to do all chores by ourseleves. This is because we strongly feel that a certain job has to be done in a certain way and since we are the ones who can do it perfectly, we prefer to tackle most of the chores by ourselves, but then, end up complaining that "there is no help from the other person."
I guess if most women realized that if they let go of some of their perfectionist way of doing things or didn't end up strightening the things that their spouses or children did, most chores around the house will get done and who knows, we may even have time for a pedicure, a bubble bath and to catch up on reading some novels.
Happy Monday to all............
14 comments:
If we ren't a perfectionist definetly we will let others do the work. If they do it for one day, they keep talking for years!
When women= chores, men = jacuzzi or zapping the Chanels :) LOL!
Have a great week ahead!
Love the post. Although I love my home clean ....I still think of chores,... as chores. However, when the weekend arrives, I usually love it when chores are the last thing on everyone's mind (After all,... I've been doing them for the whole week!). So, if my hubby was to pick up the vacuum cleaner or decides to clear up a shelf or something,... I can get really annoyed! I prefer that the family uses the weekend to play.... (that's why Mondays are the busiest days for me - cleaning up after the weekend! :) )
I came...I read..I commented..I left..
just playing it safe..
I am realist than a perfectionist. So K and I share most of our household chores as I know that I cant do all the work by myself, with a full-time job. Most of our weekends are spent of course, on vacuuming and moping the floors, needless to say - not to mention the ever-piling dishes :)
I do fall into the perfectionist trap as mentioned in your post from time to time. I have learned over the years that I can take what help I can get without too much complaining!
This one, I am never going to learn!!
Very true! We women really do think that we know best...and we end up suffering (for want of a better word) 'coz of that.
As you rightly said, one should not be obsessed with perfection in daily chores. Have a great week.
Well, here at mom's home; it is my parents' botheration. For various reasons, have not had the sense of belonging though it is the place I currently call home. I do pick the vac and clean once in a while (that is my perfectionist streak coming in) When I was supposedly in my "home" I left the vacuuming to P most of the time. Dishes, cooking, cleaning otherwise were my duty. Laundry - washing mine, folding ours. Kinda weirdly shared the work I can say -not a balanced equal share after all I was a "home maker" so I had to make it right? :) Though in my particular case, it was woman = chores,man = sleep
Its the same in India too..i hate household chores unless i really feel the need for doing something
he he rightly said...perfectionists always end up in trouble of Over working!..
...should I admit I am one of them?..
Ok,then I live in India and can always depend upon labour(pref cheaper than in US)..making the husb and children lazier..
well said! Most of the women's duties are to do chores, chores! Men simply watch tv or lay down on the couch. But in my case, eventhough I am a stay-at-home my hubby shares all the chores.
I agree....Women I have seen growing up are so very hard working. And i think eventually at some point one attains a perfection.
hey, hi, thanks for visiting my blog. I believe no human is a perfectionist. I expect no help but if I get some, it's appreciated.
Anu
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