HAPPY VALENTINES

Well later this afternoon he went to the shops to buy white bread for DGS and he came home with two bunches of roses, yellow and pink. That maybe because our friends 2 doors away told them her Dh had bought her a bucket full of flowers.

However my Dh is good to me. He does all the vacuuming and fills and empties the dishwasher. I get that everyday of the year. Shirley

In message , spinninglilac writes

In message , Mirjam Bruck-Cohen writes

Thanks Mirjam. I met him when I was 15 and he was in the Royal Navy, Married him at 18 and went to live in Malta for 2.1/2 years. We had 2 sons. He is now 74 and I 70. It was a marriage meant to last because like a career we both worked at it. Shirley

Awww, that's really sweet, Shirley. Both the flowers, and the fact that he is so good to you all of the other days too. :o)

My Dad used to help out a lot around the house, he loved to cook and did quite a few of the meals, and the dishwasher was *his* toy that none of the rest of us even knew how to run. When he had his stroke the dishwasher was loaded but hadn't been turned on, so I did all the dishes by hand and then teased him when we went to the hospital to visit him that he *could* have shown me how to work the dishwasher before having a stroke. His first day home (2 1/2 months later, after not mentioning it again) he came to the kitchen and showed me how to run the dishwasher, then grinned and walked back into the other room. ;o)

Gem

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you Sweethearts ,you all have a great day .

Stella

That's good to know Shirley, I have a good one too, will hoover clean polish cook the lot when he's home, so no probs there. trouble is he works away alot.

Mind you I did get a cuppa in bed Valentines morning, ulterior motive though, A little after four this morning I had to get up to drive him to the train station, to meet a train, as he'd done a double shift on sunday, working that night, so therefore didn't have the works van to get him back to Wales, as he slept monday, so I had to take him to get the train, he'll bring the firms van back on friday or saturday.

You have it all there Shirley, it's a contract, love is like a garden, if you don't pull your weight, or don't put anything into it, nothing will grow....except nasty chokey weeds.

Well done to you both.

hugz cher

thnx Stella hoping you did too.....

You have just described the give and take of marriage by getting up early to take him to the station.

When my Dh retired he said he would take over the housekeeping money. Goody I said after 40 odd years I could not wait to get shut of it. It was something for him to do in retirement, but my did he get his eyes opened when he realised just how hard it was to juggle the budget. He had not known what I had struggled with all those years. It was the best thing that happened. Now I walk like the Queen with only a handkerchief in my bag and no money and let him pay out. LOL

Not quite true really I do have my own pension and I buy clothes and hobby bits and pieces. I told him that housekeeping also involved cleaning and cooking as well as laundry and ironing. Alas that did not happen.

However I had heart bypass surgery 6 months after I retired at 61. So took on the cleaning and did the washing under my supervision until I was able to again. The ironing we paid to have done for awhile. I am afraid though I find ironing extremely painful. When they cut my breast bone open and spragged it open it seems as if some damage was done to my spine. When I have ironed 3 things I could cry with the pain. I had to give up my knitting machine for the same reason. I donated well over a 1000 pounds worth of cones of wool and yarn to the WI last year. I kept the rayon's and viscose because I use them in my beaded tassels. I find it hard getting silky threads in small quanties for the tassel skirts.

So we both you and I know what it takes to make a good marriage. I hope that you will get him with you always one day. During our courtship and early married life DH was away a lot when he was in the RN. Hugs Shirley

In message , spinninglilac writes

I had a similar start to this day -- my DH woke me at 4:15 so I could drive him to the airport for a trip to St Louis. Actually, so I could drive the car back from the airport - I just put on my sweats and plopped into the other seat for the ride there so that I could wake up before taking the wheel. DH's job is actually out of St Louis but since most of it is on computer, we don't have to live there. :)

Judy

Oh I get Dave more than you did then, as I get him home tired out from Sat til monday morning, just sometimes he has to do a double back. He is a mechanical engineer and has to travel all over the place, putting things right factories like the Avon Polymers or food factories Printing firms etc. He is 63 now and although is looking forward to retirement, wants to keep going part time, thus bringing in the extra for camping hols etc.

Oh you poor lass, with the pain....you ought to have got an electric bar installed onto your knitting machine which would take the carriage back and forth for you with just a foot pedal, saves all the pushin' and pullin' dunno about the ironing though...I tumble dry most of my things and iron the minimal amount..

Did you feel like a wet week in a dry fortnight most of the day as well ... cos I sure did lol.

Cheers....Cher

Shirley, I fear that if Keith ever takes over the money we will end up in the poorhouse!

Higs, Kather> You have just described the give and take of marriage by getting up