Moody Server, Sparkly Casa
Hey guys 😀
Sorry the blog decided to disappear today! Apparently the server and the blog are having a little drama, but they’ve got it resolved for now 😉
This afternoon, I made the pilot some lunch… and he made me LAZY 😀 I had so much to do, but when he’s home, I just want to hang out with him!
I did get some cheesy kale chips in the dehydrator:
And proceeded to eat about half of them throughout the course of the day 😉 They’re so good when they’re warm!
More random eats:
Smoothie
-Almond milk
-Bananner
-Raw cacao powder
Egg-stada with goat gouda and Texas Pete:
Coconut water after spinning:
I was pretty stoked because when I got home from work, I saw a sparkling kitchen– the pilot did all of the dishes and cleaned up around here.
Lurve.
Here’s how we split up the chores in our casa:
–Me: Bedrooms, my laundry (I won’t touch his stinky man laundry), cooking, grocery shopping
–Pilot: His laundry, trash, dishes, yard/handyman stuff, floors (he Swiffers and vacuums…and I love him, haha)
How do you split up the duties in your casa?
The pilot says he will donate his chores to our future children. He’s a generous guy like that 😉
I’m off to make some dinner and read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
See ya in the morning <3
xoxo,
Gina
Something to read:
–Eating Nutritiously a Struggle When Money is Scarce
-Portion Control Quiz (thanks for the link, Jeannette)
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Woot! Go Pilot!!! What a gorgeous kitchen!
Kudos to the pilot!
My roommate and I clean our respective rooms and bathrooms plus our own cooking, I do the dishes/tidy the kitchen (I think I established this as my domain the first week I moved in, haha) and she takes care of the living/tv room. It works so well!
WOW….Way to go PILOT!!! He needs to give my salesman a lesson on home sparkle 😉
glad to hear bloggy is back
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My fabulous hubs does the dishes every. single. day. (swoon) Generally I cook, grocery shop, and do most of the cleaning (especially bathrooms — the man hates. bathrooms.), but he does the laundry (which is actually a task when living in an apartment sans washer) and vacuums at my bidding (haha…jk….kind of). But, we are both flexible so sometimes we switch it up if one of us needs it. He is especially awesome at picking up my slack! : ) heh heh.
Hurrah for good men and clean houses!
Um…your hubby vacuums??!! That’s a “keeper” trait in and of itself! Last week my boyfriend picked me up and brought me over to his house…to help him fold laundry. Sexyyyy. My roommate and I split it pretty evenly – we each do our own stuff, rooms/laundry/dishes/etc, and the kitchen and bathroom gets cleaned by whichever of us gets the whim to. It’s pretty evenly done. Although I am ALWAYS taking out the garbage, it kind of annoys me…
Loving all those articles at the end. I love yoga-Pilates fusion. It’s my dream to one day own a fusion studio.
Love having a guy who will help out around the house. My mom used to do EVERYTHING (all the laundry, cooking, shopping, and cleaning) so I’d made not sure to start off doing everything when Isaac and I moved in together. He does his own laundry, some of the shopping, some of the cleaning, and all the yard work. I do most of the shopping, cooking, and lots of the cleaning.
our family was the SAME way. my mom would do -still does!- everything
Awww…. how sweet of the Pilot! Any guy who cleans is definitely a keeper! 😉
We split the stuff when we have time – he takes the outside, I do the inside, but he usually always vacuums and does dishes and cleans toilets! Thank goodness. 🙂
We share. I cook, he does dishes. I do most of the cleaning, he vacuums because I HATE it. We both do laundry. We are moving to our first house that is ours, and our first yard, so we’ll see what happens with that!
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was so hard to get into, but then I couldn’t put it down! I just finished it, and have plans to start The Girl Who Played With Fire after the move. Such a great story!
Being a military family, I take every advantage when the hubby is home! Our chores, when he is home, I take care of every room except the bathrooms and mopping the kitchen floor! We also have three kids, oldest job is the trash, middle child is the recycling, youngest is ensuring the sprinkler in the backyard is on for 15 minutes every night. But I have to ask what’s the big deal with his laundry? My thought is (and please know this is in NO way a judgement, I’m just curious how other people live!) is once we married we both inherited each other! He’ll do the laundry or I’ll do it…doesn’t matter who’s clothes are in there! I once had a friend who hated the military so much that she would never allow her husband to wear his uniform in the house. I find people’s lives interesting and hey..whatever works for you 🙂 lol
i just feel like his clothes get stinkier (hahah) and i know he would do something like throw an expensive dress or a pair of lace panties in the dryer. not that it would be that big of a deal, but i prefer to do my own 🙂
I understand, just curious! I have had many clothes that have come out smaller or a little “pink” when we first got married! LOL
haha exactly!
In my parents’ house, I do all the laundry and cooking! I swear, my mom was waiting for me to be born so she could pass on the laundry duties as soon as I was old enough to reach the knobs. I love being at school, because I only have to clean up after myself!
We both typically do our own laundry too, but it’s mostly cuz I don’t trust him with my clothes! haha. Don’t tell him I told you 😉
i absolutely LOVE your kitchen, it is beautiful, much like you!
I do most of the chores around here, sweeping, vacuuming, dishes, shopping, litter box duty, toilet scrubbing, laundry. But my man will do the dishes sometimes and helps put away the laundry. I’m not really complaining, because i dont mind! i like being a handy lil housewife (not wife yet though)
thank you <3
i'm the same way- i don't mind it 🙂
I’m moving in with the man here in about 10 days! Soooo this will be a big discussion here soon!
oooooh! good luck!
We pretty much split the chores depending on who is around and when. Sometimes my fiancé works from home, and when he does, I usually come home to a sparkly apartment :). I cook, he cleans. I grocery shop, he unloads the groceries. Works out well 🙂
Those kale chips look great! Possible to make them without a dehydrator?
As for chores…I do the laundry. Hubby does the dishes/kitchen. Everything else we share. Works quite well for us! I definitely like the Pilot’s idea of donating his chores to your someday children – I think my hubby and I will do the same thing!
Such a pretty kitchen!
My hubby does the poo related chores..like cleaning the bathrooms and scoopin’ the kitty litter
I do everything else 😉
My hubby scoops the kitty’s litter box daily and does all the dusting and vacuumming. I do the grocery shopping, cooking, and all laundry. I mostly do the dishes, but he helps. We split everything else.
Haha…..I think I prefer your chores over the pilot’s (I LOVE grocery shopping…it’s not a chore, it’s an outing)!
Oh random question, (and you can refrain from answering if it’s too personal/weird), but I know you and the Pilot met at starbucks, but did he make the first move or did you?
(My mom and i are having a debate about whether women are usually the instigators….hehe)
hahah neither of us, but it was definitely a woman! my boss from the dance studio saw my car at starbucks, came in to say hi, i told her i thought the pilot was hot, and she went over and told him he should talk to me 😉 i was SO EMBARASSED haha
That’s so cute! Thank goodness she spoke up. Hmmmmm…..I guess the debate is at a draw since a 3rd party member introduced you 😉
I basically do all of the chores: cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. But J kills all the bugs and does all home maintenance things: changes light bulbs, fixed things, cleans the garage, etc.
You have a beautiful kitchen — I’ve always wanted one of those wrap around bar/countertops. Maybe in our next house 🙂
Wow! Your pilot rocks! My hubby does jack diddly around the house but since I dont work anymore I guess that’s ok. 🙂
I disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms, do the laundry and dust. My husband deals with garbage, vacuuming and outdoor chores (lawn and snow). We share the cooking and dishes.
I am on The Girl Who Played with Fire, my husband read all 3 books and we are both loving them. Happy reading!
That smoothie looks so good!
I do all indoor chores except garbage + recycling. Jason does all outdoor (including pool vacuuming / cleaning!).
He is also in charge of spider removal. 😉
Gosh, the kitchen looks nice! The Boy & I divide the chores pretty evenly. He always does the backyard & I will do the bathroom & kitchen on “cleaning day.” I tend to vacuum & dust while he does the “handy” things. Otherwise, I usually cook (because I am the foodie) and he normally does the dishes. There are some days though when I give him a break =)
I only do the grocery shopping. Hallelujah.
i basically do everything because i’m WAY too anal retentive and my hubby helps whenever i start slacking so i don’t freak out 🙂
Great NPR link. Thanks for posting
haha cutest couple everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Haha the Pilot is a generous man.
My parents split it up like this:
Mom: laundry, most cleaning around the house (we used to have a house keeper when we were young though), cooking
Dad: trash, dishes, taking care of the cars, handiwork, lawn
THe pilot is just like my dad hahaha he totally handed over the chores to me and my brother!
I have to admit that I’m pretty lazy around the house. My husband does the laundry, trash, and yard stuff. We split everything else but he probably does it more than me. I almost always do the bathrooms though.
The smell of warm kale chips in the dehyd is enough to make me eat thru the black plastic of the box; seriously they are dangerously good, arent they!
Chores:
Me
I do everything from bill paying to floor scrubbing to errand running to dishes to 100% of food prep, grocery shopping, and taking care of Skylar 90% of the time. 15 days a month Scott’s not even here and the other 15 he’s working 16 hr days.
Scott
Makes money
Takes care of Skylar when he can, about 10% of the time
Does 0 cooking, cleaning, housework, etc. But I also don’t want him to.
We both understand our roles and we both wish it were more balanced, and one day it will be, but for now, this is life 🙂 The flip side is that I am at home raising my child. The alternative would be to get a job and put her in day care and then neither scott nor I would see her. So he busts his ass so that at least I can stay home and raise her 🙂
We split ours up as follows:
– He dusts, cleans the toilets, takes out the trash, and does the yard work
– I vacuum and clean the floors, clean the bathrooms (except for the toilets), and take care of the dogs
– I do my laundry, he does his (I do anything that applies to both of us, like sheets and towels)
– We take turns cooking and whoever doesn’t cook does the dishes
Except when he’s deployed or on a trip, then I do it all – and I know you know how that goes 😉
mmm…let’s see: my hubby is trying very hard to teach the empty bottles of soda/milk to walk to the trash.That’s it…what can you do, training (without success) is a really tiring job 😉 (ok, I’ll admit it, sometimes I hate him for this)
I live alone so the chores are all mine. If I arrived home to a sparkly kitchen I’d have to turn on my tail and run away screaming! Though I’m not sure I’ve heard of an intruder that would consider cleaning kitchens! 🙂
hahah!
oh my gosh we have the exact same division of labor in our household — too funny! I am so grateful to have my fiance help out because some of my friends’ significant others don’t do anything and I can’t imagine not having his help 🙂 it was a learning experience at first about what tasks I could delegate (I’m a bit of a perfectionist and did not like the way he cleaned the bathroom haha he’s not as thorough as I) but we’ve learned what works for us!
WooHoo for the Pilot!! A man that helps around the house is just downright sexy. At my house we split it by outside/inside. I take care of the inside stuff…cleaning, laundry, financial stuff. DH takes care of all things outside..yard work, car stuff, and the bad inside stuff like the cat box and the garbage. We split the cooking. I’m vegan and he isn’t. So I cook what I’m eating and he has to cook what he wants to add to it. I love your blog. I’m bummed that my job has blocked it and I can’t read it every day. 🙁
We split up the chores but not totally evenly, though he does work longer hours than I do. He always does the lawn and trash, and helps with the cleaning. I grocery shop and cook everyday Matt works, but he cooks on at least one of his days off. I fold and put away all the laundry which is the worst chore in my opinion, but there is a strict rule that Mommy watches The Real Housewives while folding clothes. 🙂
i don’t think there’s anything more relaxing than coming into an unexpectedly claean kitchen. totally motivates to go blow it up again with some culinary genius action! or some sort of culinary action ;).
We split up chores, unfortunately when the boy is gone to sea (he is a sailor and gone 3/4 of the summer… about 1/2 the year!) I have to do everything! I cook, clean the main rooms of the house, he does laundry, sweeps and takes the litter box out and we both do dishes 😀
xo
Kris
So the pilot is that much more of a catch than I thought! He does a fantastic job – not the kind of job my fellow does, where I have to follow up after him (when he’s not looking), cause he doesn’t do such a wonderful job. He’s the kind of guy that would focus on cleaning up the garage when we have company coming . . . gotta love him!
He did a great job! My husband does most of the stuff that requires heavy lifting or lots of standing/walking. I can’t do much because of my knee pain but I usually do the laundry and general tidying up. I most appreciate him doing the dishes.
My husband vaccumms too….I think it makes me love him even more! Can I ask where you buy your coconut water? I’ve looked at a couple places. I haven’t made it to Whole Foods yet but I’m guessing I’ll find it there.
Thanks!
Jocelyn in the STL
yup- whole foods! 🙂
My husband and I do it almost exactly the same way… except I ususally do the dishes, and he dusts and feeds the pets (in addition to the Pilot’s list). I also tackle the things he never would notice, like cleaning the inside of the microwave, keeping closets/cupboards organized, things like that. And PS— I love to meal plan (and he usually comes along for the ride when we food shop) and I love to organize, major bonus. And he enjoys the big ticket items with maximum satisfaction, like vacumming.
I’m pretty lucky in that Big Guy is a neat freak. But he always washes the dishes after dinner – and he does the ironing as well as all the outside work. Oh – and he enjoys windexing the front and back windows. Weirdo.
WOW the pilot is amazing!! Unfortunately there is no pilot in my life at the moment, so there is no chore splittage – yet!! I have a roommate though, and I usually take responsibility for the kitchen (since I’m in it all the time!) and she does the bathrooms.
Glad your blog is back in action!
The chores…isn’t that a topic for discussion! 😉
Typically, I have the bathrooms, the laundry, and the floors (the floors were previously the hubski’s until he started working 60+ hrs/week)
He has the yard work (besides watering flowers) /handy man stuff, the garbage, and daily pick up – he’s good at doing a quick sweep of the counters and stuff the counters collect daily. We alternate dishes. He knows I HATE coming home to or going to bed with dirty dishes in the sink, so whoever has 5 minutes will do a quick load/unload of the dishwasher.
Jealous Major! This is a HUGE (maybe the largest) issue in our relationship. He does not have any “assigned” chores. He likes the “tell me what you need done” approach so I constantly feel like I’m nagging = I end up doing 90% of the adult duties. 🙁 Might just have’ta email him a link to your post.
hahah that’s a good idea. or just have a chat w him and decide how you guys want to split things up! it will make things easier and you won’t have to feel like you’re nagging him
I do pretty much everything, but he helps when he can.
I wonder who gets stuck doing my nemesis- the bathrooms? In my house I do them, but I seriously want a cleaning company to come scrub our showers for me.
i do them and i hate it. haha.
showers are the WORST