OMG that's one expensive cavity search! But you won fair and square... just book your tickets on Pan American Airlines and send me the bill.

Youse guys on the other side of the world 'll be the death o' me yet...

And where is MY ticket???

You really over-estimate me! I screw up *all* the time, and "let" Jay rescue me. There's tons of stuff I "let" him do. rofl No, seriously, I know what you mean and there were times in the past when I may have not "let" him take responsibility with the kids but things are much better in that regard. I try to back him up and I back up his decisions if the kids try to ask me for something that he's already said no to. I try to not interfere if he's handling something with the kids.

Currently he does almost all the cooking. That started when he was a SAHD last year, and now I've continued to let him since it's one thing that will get done even if I don't do it.


Prolly self-preservation. LOL Since it's his parents that are coming, I figured it was the least I could ask him to do. I considered going ahead and trying to do it myself, as sort of a "gift" to him in return for the things he does when I've gotten us into a mess, but there's just no way, not humanly possible to do everything.

Again, seriously, I'm not sure why but he's being awfully nice and reasonable all of a sudden. If this were last week I could easily see him refusing to do anything except for the one way he'd decided to do it.


Hmmm...


At this rate they're gonna have to carry in from the garage and assemble a master bedroom suite at least, before they can sleep.

Ok already... you book a flight on Pan American too, and I promise to reimburse you.
Down-Underers...

So all the Aussies have to visit their local plane graveyard and assemble their own planes? LOL

I'll settle for you coming to Seattle when I come over

No, they just have to book their tix for travel on or before 1991. Or was it 2001?

Bugger. Knew there had to be a catch.

sorry for the TJ Jayne,

LSNE, if it isnt TMI where about in OZ are you at? My sister and parents live in Melbourne

Lil, you're apologizing for TJing a discussion about a bogus offer to pay for Pan Am tickets???

Hmm for a minute I thought we were on someone else's thread and that *I* should apologize for TJing with the PanAm humor. lol

It's getting late on this side of the world, y'all.

I was brung up proper, and I already TJ'ed a thread this week.
And I liked it

Go to sleepies jayne, If your insomnia is a problem tonight, well, I always told Flcik that along with SF he was giving me a sleep injection......

Currently in the deep dark north, in Darwin . I hear they have this new-fangled thing called electrickery in Melbourne. Is it true? :P

Darwin??
Scary, my dad was lving there for a couple of years.
Dunno about the lectrikery, but they dont marry cousins, there are people to spare!


Sorry couldnt resist.
Im from NZ and cant stop a bit of Ocker baiting.

No sheep jokes allowed

Lol, no prob. I'm half Kiwi anyway .

Hi jayne, you asked how others would have handled the museum thing. At Disney, DD12 and H like to do the roller coasters, and DD7 and I like the shows. We do spend a lot of time the four of us together, but we split into two groups sometimes, too. I spend lots of one on one time with DD12 at home, so it all evens out.

So I think I would have asked DS6a do you want to go to our thing just the two of us, or would you like us to go with them to do the museum thing? Or we could try it, and if we get tired, go do the other thing. Or go back to the hotel early and swim. Or we could get a $15 umbrella stroller. I know you two are big boys, but it's heavy on me to carry you. Then we all take a vote. Us parents get the veto, too

Sometimes both kids want to come with me, and that's cool, too. We went to Orlando in October, and H went to Halloween Horror Nights this year, and kept trying to talk one of us into going with him, but none of us wanted to. So he decided to go alone. Now, you could tell me I missed a great opportunity to make love bank deposits, but I went once already, and it was very uncomfortable for me. It would have made more withdrawals for me.

Jayne, you said that your H often bails you out of jams. I wanted to ask if this is POJA'd ahead of time? I'm confused that he responds to your requests to bail you out of jams but does not respond to other requests, like about trying the tissue box in a new place for a few days. Does it make sense to you?

Get your kids a motorized scooter. Then you can drag them anywhere flat and they will be able to just sit there.

I see that part of the problem is your husband is 9 years younger than you. That is really "14" years younger inn "man years". (Since men often mature 5 years later than women.)

So, you will always know more than him. How frustrating it must be. If you could only give him a "brain transfer" to give him what wisdom you have learned having lived 9 extra years!!!!

Honestly, I kinda think she's in the same boat I am - afraid to bring up things because of the response she expects.

Jams can't be POJA'd ahead of time. If I could see them coming, I would avoid them... well ok, some are predictable, but still the plan never is to get in the jam. I'm sorry to admit it but the jams are sometimes like the jams cat's H gets into, like packing for a trip and forgetting something or misplacing something. For this last trip, I got all the way to the airport (45 miles away) and noticed I'd left my suitcase in the other car (my car that I drove to pick up the company car, which is what they do rather than reimburse you for the drive to the airport).

He doesn't always bail me out. Just like he often isn't willing to discuss and decide together where to place things. I'm not talking about when I want A and he wants B and we end up doing B after discussing it; I mean, I want A and he wants B and there's no discussion, he gets it the way he wants no matter what.

That is very discouraging. To bring something up, and just simply be told, "No." No discussion, no chance to appeal (although I'm not sure why I'm the one having to appeal to his judgment, why does he get the final say over everything).

Savvy women prolly would be able to recognize different moods and know when is a good time to ask something.

So, let me give an update: things are even crazier than before.

MIL and FIL arrived last night. The carpet guys still hadn't finished, so what little furniture there was was all in the kitchen and the bathroom. There are only two chairs at the dining table that can be gotten to to sit in. There's not much room to move around in the kitchen. We still couldn't put up the other bed, so MIL and FIL slept on a fold-out sofa. (It's the lumpiest bed I've ever slept in; I don't even know how old it is, I think someone had left it behind when H moved into his house.)

It gets worse. The electricity to half the kitchen, including the side that the fridge is on, went out. Yep, never seen that happen before. Nope, it isn't the fuse, H checked.

FIL was going to call an electrician today. Sure hope they haven't all taken off for Thanksgiving already. Dontcha know, this would never happen in an ordinary week.

Maybe the frozen turkey that H put in there to defrost will keep it cool inside.