His family joked with me the day after his arrival that I should create a powerpoint slide with my OWN reintegration brief for him. After a week of having him back in my life, I am beginning to think its a great idea.
Slide 1: Dog Poop
Just because I did not pick it up every week while you were gone does not mean you do not have to pick it up every week. I had a lot on my plate with taking care of the house all by my lonesome. There are now two of us which means we can now do twice as much so you will now pick up the dog poop at least once a week
Slide 2: Feeding the Dogs
Our third dinner at home, we were all sitting at the kitchen table together. I glanced over at him and saw him handing big pieces of chicken to Daisy and Dakota. I almost fell off my chair.
WE DO NOT FEED THE DOGS TABLE FOOD! But if we do, we place it in their bowl, not hand it to them from the kitchen table. This creates bad habits.
Slide 3: Dishes
Once you are done eating your food, we place whatever dishware in the sink. I do not like playing "Guess where your cereal bowl is" every morning. One morning, no joke, found it on top of his dresser.
Slide 4: Cooking
I cooked for myself for one year. It might take me awhile to start cooking again for two, let alone cook anything besides in the microwave. Be patient, I am trying.
Slide 5: The Sheets
I did get use to sleeping diagonal in our bed and having all of the sheets. I might (will most definitely) steal the sheets for at least the first month. Again, be patient, I am trying.
Slide 6: Dirty Clothes
Nothing drives me crazy like dirty clothes all over our bedroom floor. Since you are being so patient with me, I will be patient with you. I will allow you to throw your clothes wherever you like for the next few weeks. You were in a war zone and you are my hero, therefore I will ignore the clothes...for a little while then its Laundry Nazi time.
Slide 7: Survial
You might find a few, or many, things you do not or will not approve of that I did to either 1) fix things for the time being or 2) get by. I am apologizing for those now. It will simply my means of survial.
Slide 8: You
I absolutely love having you home. I love waking up to my best friend and love being able to talk to you about anything and everything every single day. I just wanted to remind you in case I sounded a little crazy in the previous 7 slides :)
11 comments:
Adorable! I already told Erick dog poop duty is all his once he's back as well. I was thinking of making a welcome home sign from the dogs and hanging it on the fence in the backyard saying something along the lines of Welcome Home Dad we're happy you're back safe and sound but really we missed you picking up our poop, get to work.
I think that sounds like a completely reasonable PowerPoint presentation!
I am SO copying parts of that!
That is soo true.
Its called Welcome Home Syndrome.
You might get a kick out of this comic strip.
http://jennyspouse.com/November2008.html
I'm going to do a post over at my blog about it. :) Stop on by!
I love it! I might have to borrow those when P gets back from his deployment. :)
I'm laughing.
When C came home this last deployment, I would tell him..."For the past 15 months, blah, blah, blah" of course it was always said in a joking manner, but there was some truth to it.
"For the past 15 months, there have been no dirty dishes in the sink. I don't need you to come home and start putting dirty dishes in the sink." Ha!
That was the biggest adjustment for me,having to deal with cleaning a house that had two people living in it. You know how I like things to be neat and tidy!
Too cute. I can relate to a lot of these :)
My one thing was that I did NOT want to get my car's oil changed ever again. Then last week he asked me to get HIS car's oil changed. I made a big stink about it, but ended up doing it anyway.
But I pretty much agree with everything that you said! Although he still leaves his dirty clothes all over and I have to guess which ones are clean. We're working on it.
Oh man... my husband also needs to be briefed on the whole feeding the dogs from the table. That should include feeding Blaze ice cream right off the spoon!!
I'm so glad y'all are together again and enjoying normal life. :)
My roommate/best friend and I squabble all the time about the "correct" way to do dishes. Of course, bless her heart, I know deep down that MY way is the correct method of dish washing LOL.
um, I LOVE THIS! :) I may have to send my hubby the link to this post hahah :)
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