to not want to do the normal 30 minute desperate tidy up before dh gets home from work

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I just don't think I can be arsed

But the breakfast bowls are still hanging about, I've not loaded the dishwasher, pyjamas are scattered asunder, toys strewn willy and indeed nilly, and there is at least 2 weeks worth of clean washing on the dining room table

FIL is coming round tomorrow to do some odd jobs around the house (lovely man, he's been so helpful) involving drilling and painting/filling walls etc and dh will be a bit annoyed if the place is a tip for him

(should point out that dh is picking ds up from nursery on his way home, I went on a short shopping trip with my mum and have been lazing around on my ample buttocks since I got home at 2)

Ha ha, what refreshing read, nice to know my house is not alone.

However when I get in from work I take the DC's up to bed and DH tidies (he worked in the AM when I was home, but will have been home with the DC's all afternoon.

Ask DH to help you when he gets in, if it's just for one day just fane a headache

I sometimes have a quick tidy up before Dh gets home but for what- shoes to be discarded in a hap hazrd way in hallway along with brief case, newspaper thrown on hall table , coat chucked over bannister, tie lobbed over the door , clothes in a heap by side of bed as he changes into something more 'comfortable' !

DONT BOTHER !

Same here, DD has been clingy and unwell today, so we have had lots of cuddles and CBeebies for her, MN for me and NO CLEANING

In fact we are nor dressed yet

I will have to make up for it tomorrow.

PMSL did i write this ...

i agree feign headache/illness and stay on here

I need to clear the internet history from the computer for today or dh will know just how long I've been lurking around here for

Oh I clear internet history aswell sometimes , glad I am not the only one

I try to do it because I love the idea of him walking in to a beautifull organised house with children fed, dinner smells wafting round the house whilst I faff around in the kitchen looking beautiful in a cath kidston pinny

Laughing at this post, I so do the 30 minute frantic clean up. I've just made a pie but have some pastry left over what is the pattern you do in the middle with the left over pastry??

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We always had leaves in the middle of my mum's home made pies.
That someone has the cooking skill to made a homemade pie.

We always had leaves in the middle of my mum's home made pies.
That someone has the cooking skill to made a homemade pie.

Opps, I must be very at the pie

Ok off to make some leaves, I was picturing some horn in the middle? God knows where that came from lol?

grouphug....save it til tomorrow and make jam tarts!

I always do the tidy up too but DH is away with the children and my house is beautifully blitzed, dinner is cooking and the water is just heating up for my bath!!!

hahahahahahaha!!

Tidy up for DH? Hmmmn..... depends if it's because you revere him as some honoured guest/master of the house who deserves to be welcomed into a haven of domesticity, or because you've been a lard-arse all day and you don't want to have to own up to it or justify yourself. For me, it'd be the latter.

it would never have crossed my mind to do this for DH, not once, ever!

More like expected him to tidy up when he got in from work

Definatley the latter for me too, I do try to tidy up but only so we can get kids to bed earlier .

Actually I have been super cheeky. Just rung DH and I'm getting him to pick up a couple of bits from the shop for tea including chocolate...he he

That said I feel very tired, up at night with ill DD and I'm 4 months pregnant. I think I can have the odd off day.

It's very important not to make houses look too smart for returning husbands--makes them think being at home with children/being a working mother is so easy we have lots of time for cleaning.

Tip from my mother.

Eliza, I like your mum's style

Honoria.

Liking the replies to this, I posted then had a dash of guilt so did a 15 minute tidy up instead of 30 mins Eliza your mum sounds sooo sensible

Wouldn't have been tidying up for dh, just that as I have been Home Alone all day and normally work (but 20 weeks pg and been off sick for a few months with hyperemesis which is thankfully receding I hope) and have done very little all week either, not just yesterday

As it is it didn't take me long to sort out, but it is now a complete tip again and fil will be here in about 1/2 hour so will have to go and do it all again

Today I am not taking ds to nursery, we are decamping to my mums as she is on half term. Yet again there will be very little housework done in a house that REALLY REALLY needs it

I txtd my DP last night to say 'I'm not tidying up or washing the pots until tomorrow'. At least it's a warning of them mayhem before they get home!!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeel, shoot me but if you are a SAHM, part of your remit is to keep the house running

if I worked all day and came home to a pig sty and BREAKFAST DISHES in the sink, I would not be too happy tbh and would harrumph at dh to sort it out

if you have a new baby obviously you can let the house to to pot, but other then that, YABU to have your house a tip

get off the computer