To think that suggesting I get on with some work actually means let me get on with some work?

[cheesenpickles]

Lighthearted because he's actually very good.

We've been as sick as dogs all week. Utter nightmare. I work from home and have struggled through and managed to just about keep on top of things. I don't normally work today but dh suggested as he's off (rostered off day) he'd watch the smallest (eldest at nursery) and I could get a head start on tomorrow in case the kids come down et. (Mil usually has them on a Friday but is also ill).

So, for some reason I agreed, told my colleagues and now he seems annoyed in expecting him to watch said grumpy child while I actually... you know... do some work. Apparently it's interrupting him playing Red Dead. Can he get a cf award? I was quite happy to have a day of Lounging and playing with the toddler but now I'm committed to do stuff.

I bet he doesnt usually have them on his own? He obviously thought that "being home with the kids" meant you dossed around all day, this is a valuable lesson for him!

I think it's throwback to when I freelanced and I could just about juggle the kids and working. I didn't however get to watch tv or do things I wanted to do. He think they should just quietly play with duplo while he plays PlayStation. He's a very good dad and does his 50% but I swear he views my job/working from home as something I just do while doing all the "at home things". He'll frequently just start nattering on about me switching my days around so we can go to the cinema or something. I have flexibility but not take the piss flexibility.

Also working with the fucking Wild West being blasted out in the same room (I tend to work in our dining room) very fucking irritating.

Take the game console lead and hide it.

Well the toddler is a miserable mess. The eldest's nursery has just phoned saying she's not feeling well and has a low temperature.

Doesn't look like I'm getting much work done today.

If it was you home with the kids and he was at work, would you be phoning demanding he come home because you couldnt cope?
If the answer is "no" then surely he can cope while you work :p

Lol actually... I may have called him home early from work a few times