With my bee-yootiful wife working 3-5 nights every week these days, heavy on the weekends unfortunately, there has been a paucity of dual parenting in the Fraser household. I recently commented to her that it seems as if we spend our days playing tag-team token household adult. (She is assisting in dinner demos for the very cool - and very expensive - Saladmaster line of custom cookware.) She will typically be out of the house between 5 and 11 PM. I get home from work at about 5.30 PM. You do the math.
This rather lamentable state of affairs can best be summed up with:
Simian Farmer HAIKUS!!
Puddle of dog pee,
Middle of the kitchen floor.
Don't touch it Declan!!
Open the dresser:
Dearth of underpants, I see.
Inside-out again.
What's for supper, Dex?
Chicken nuggets, cheese and fries.
Homo milk chaser.
Up at five to run.
To bed after ten o'clock.
Did I see my wife?
Rain forest tribesmen
Squatting on the patio.
Time to mow the lawn.
Plastic toy minefield.
What colour is our carpet?
Oh... put the toys back.
Duct tape on vacuum.
Deep freeze warbles mournful tune.
Skin on teeth grows thin.
Boy won't go to sleep.
Up and down 'til ten P.M.
No ice cream next time!
Dogs got through the fence!
Rescued by the neighbour guy.
Chinese food tonight...
You're home early, Dear!
(Maybe we can have some sex...)
I'm so tired, Simon.
T.V. sucks so hard.
Discov'ry or TBS;
Did I load my gun?
Dish-washing at nine;
Laundry until eleven.
Me: domestic god!
Want to read a book.
Immerse myself in pages.
Dare to dream a dream.
Inconsolable.
Nothing will stop the wailing.
Baby's quiet though.
We did the same thing.
The hubby got home at five
I went in at six.
Yes, the weekends, too.
He was glad when I quit that job.
Exhausted, he was !!
Posted by: Tina | Wednesday, 20 July 2005 at 12:53 AM
I can't get enough
hard-luck parenting haiku.
I read as babe shrieks.
Posted by: Jenn | Wednesday, 20 July 2005 at 01:51 PM
When we moved to Colorado and bought our first home, we did the same thing. Hubby worked 8 to 5. I worked 6 to 10 three nights a week, and all day Saturday and Sunday. It wasn't easy. And many times I came home to quite a mess. But ... it got us into our house, so we did what we had to do. Tina
Posted by: Tina | Tuesday, 04 October 2005 at 09:10 PM