Adjustments

The whole time Tom has been gone, I touted off to anyone who would listen..

"Tom is going to have one HUGE adjustment when he get home! He has lived alone for 5 months and he will come home to the chaos of a house with 3 kids, 2 dogs and a cranky cat"

We would all laugh and nod our heads in an all knowing way. I was certain his adjustment to our lives was going to be rocky and full of frustration. The kids would be too loud, the dogs would be under foot, etc.

Well, I called the rocky and frustration right on the nose. The part I got wrong was that it wouldn't be Tom with issues...it is me.

It seems that after 5 months of living alone I have become somewhat anal, and feel the need to have everyone under my thumb.

Very interesting.

Very interesting and quite true.

He has been home a week and I am STILL stepping around baggage in our bedroom.
Clean it up already PLEASE!

He leaves the medicine cabinet open every morning.
HELLO, just slide it shut, takes all of a millisecond!

Apparently my rule of "No kids in the front living room"  because I was tired of finding dirty socks lying around, the cushions on the couch all screwed up, and Hannah's crap strewn from one end to the other, was unfair. This is the FIRST room people see when they walk in our home. Is it too much to ask to have it presentable? Isn't that why we have a FAMILY ROOM downstairs?

Me "barking" orders and not asking them to pick up their crap isn't very nice.
When you ask them to pick up the same crap every day several times a day, nice goes out the door realllllly fast.

Farting and then laughing about it.
Newsflash, this was NEVER funny to me!

Sharing the remote.
This has always been an issue LOL

I do agree that I am a tad on the militant side when I ask them to do things but I became that way out of necessity.

I used to ask them the first time very nicely.
I got a "Ok Mom, just a second"
I would ask again in a firmer tone 10 minutes later.
"Ok Mom and I getting up"
15 minutes later they are STILL sitting there.
I go to what Tom calls "Drill Sargent"
They finally get up and do what I ask.

Mutiply that by 15 times per day and after 5 months you just go straight to "drill Sargent".

So yeah, I am adjusting.

The benefits to having him home far outweigh any adjustment period I am going through that is for sure!