OH currently has the hump with me big time.
His parents came to visit yesterday and his dad has to use a wheelchair. When they are at home he only uses the wheelchair when going out and uses his wife to help him get around their ground floor maisonette.
In our previous house I didn't worry about shoes in the house but fully respected other peoples homes by taking our shoes off if we visited as always had wooden floors and tiles that could be wiped.
MIL proceeded to wheel FIL straight over my spotless cream carpets and then DS wanted to be wheeled around the living room. I could feel the steam coming out of my ears and yelled to DS that you do not do wheelies on mummie's cream carpet you can do wheelies in the hall!! OH gives me the 'look' which I ignore and then towards the end of afternoon we are having tea and cake in our kitchen / diner and MIL wants to eat her cake in living rooom. I say no we do not eat in that room as it is the one room in the house that is being kept nice.
We have spent a lot of money on sofas/ furnishings and DS knows that it is not for him to play in that room and he only goes in there to sit quietly - no food, no drink, no toys nothing!!
I need to add that the rest of the house is a complete free for all but do want shoes taken off in house as mud gets trailed everywhere. Is it too much to ask that one room in our entire house gets to stay pristine? OH currently thinks I am the bitch from hell and totally unreasonable. We do have another living room with TV and sofa in it so there is somewhere else to sit........
Thanks as it is distinctly siberia like in our house at the moment :)