I will do it MY way

Originally Posted by Oviya

Wow..AC..

Your narration was simply superb....

But, not your situation...Wasn't it?

If you would have left it THEIR way.... might be.... LATER never came...

Again, very nice read, AC....I love it....I visualised it....

Oviya
Sorry I missed this comment from you.. Coming from the Queen of Humor this appreciation is worth its weight in gold!

Dear AC mam
I think this "I will do it MY way" virus has infected all husbands in this world.......and debugging them would eat up your life.. Though I am with you, I have nowdays decided to leave it his way, and "I will do it MY way", just to avoid the WW3 at home.

Before I decided on this, for 2 days I just left cleaning up. I used to leave things like over the bed and dint bother about his unironed shirts and etc etc.. but I realized that my husband was way to far to bother about it.. when he wanted it, he just picked it up, and fatta-fat ironed it and wore it.. So no point in trying to prove him anything.....

AnandChitra,

I had to respond to this. I just read it and it seemed like you were peeking into my household!

This past weekend, my little girl wanted to help me with laundry. Soon she was joined by her little brother. They helped me toss cloths into the washing machine. So far so good. Soon the cloths were tranfered with much fan-fare into the dryer. Then the cloths were ready to be folded or ironed and put away. Both the little ones wanted to help (gulp...)

My daughter wanted to do her WAY and the final result didn't look like mine. I tried teaching her but she insisted on doing her way and expected the results my way. So after much frustration, we settled that her way was better than mine. Who cares how the underwear is folded anyway? They get tossed and thrown every which way with in next 24 hrs.

While we two girls were fiddling about the right way to fold the undies, my son was busy tossing the folded cloths all over the floor. At the end of 1 hour of trying to fold and put away half a basket load of cloths, I had mastered about 20 various way to fold kids cloths. My daughter mastered how to group cloths together and my son found out how a cloth fresh out of dryer tastes like.

Next load, my hubby did it HIS WAY (I made him do it because, I wanted to start the week with no laundry to worry about). This morning, he and I were complaining that we couldn't find what we were looking for, because things were not in their usual places because things were not done MY WAY!

So which is better? Getting the work done? Or getting the work done MY WAY? These days, I settle for just getting the work done.

InduSri

Originally Posted by mui kanva

Dear AC mam
I think this "I will do it MY way" virus has infected all husbands in this world.......and debugging them would eat up your life.. Though I am with you, I have nowdays decided to leave it his way, and "I will do it MY way", just to avoid the WW3 at home.

Before I decided on this, for 2 days I just left cleaning up. I used to leave things like over the bed and dint bother about his unironed shirts and etc etc.. but I realized that my husband was way to far to bother about it.. when he wanted it, he just picked it up, and fatta-fat ironed it and wore it.. So no point in trying to prove him anything.....

Mui Kanva
Just noticed this.. sorry for the belated reply. Looks like you are in similar situations too. I agree the virus has caught many a person around the world.. hope things are better now!

Originally Posted by InduSri

AnandChitra,

I had to respond to this. I just read it and it seemed like you were peeking into my household!

This past weekend, my little girl wanted to help me with laundry. Soon she was joined by her little brother. They helped me toss cloths into the washing machine. So far so good. Soon the cloths were tranfered with much fan-fare into the dryer. Then the cloths were ready to be folded or ironed and put away. Both the little ones wanted to help (gulp...)

My daughter wanted to do her WAY and the final result didn't look like mine. I tried teaching her but she insisted on doing her way and expected the results my way. So after much frustration, we settled that her way was better than mine. Who cares how the underwear is folded anyway? They get tossed and thrown every which way with in next 24 hrs.

While we two girls were fiddling about the right way to fold the undies, my son was busy tossing the folded cloths all over the floor. At the end of 1 hour of trying to fold and put away half a basket load of cloths, I had mastered about 20 various way to fold kids cloths. My daughter mastered how to group cloths together and my son found out how a cloth fresh out of dryer tastes like.

Next load, my hubby did it HIS WAY (I made him do it because, I wanted to start the week with no laundry to worry about). This morning, he and I were complaining that we couldn't find what we were looking for, because things were not in their usual places because things were not done MY WAY!

So which is better? Getting the work done? Or getting the work done MY WAY? These days, I settle for just getting the work done.

InduSri

Indu dear
I think its a sure sign of motherhood when we realise its better for things to get done .

Over time nature prepares us in its own subtle way.
Once children come in and show us there ismore to folding laundry like maybe TASTE the laundry.. so then its time to slack off a little and just get things done.

A lot of fun is lost if we were to stick to our rules and regiments but there is more bonding and fun to be had if we all toss the clothes and play a bit and maybe have to search a little bit too.

This is certainly my way of thinking and so we have a more relaxed attitude around us .