The Good Old Days

[EagleJCS]

Hey, my mother was a home ec teacher in the early 70's and actually did some of this stuff when I was younger!




Then her two boys got a little older, she had a little girl, and everything went to heck in a handbasket! We kids had to do our share in cleaning house and helping with other chores before Dad got home. After dinner was homework time. Now, Dad takes her out to dinner more often than not, the house is kept fairly clean (but not spotless), and the clutter is (mostly) his.

[KiltedDixon]

If I showed this to my wife and told her where I got it from, she would not let me wear the kilt again.

Loved the post!

[MacCathmhaoil]

.....and that's when she hit me Your Honor!

[AFS1970]

If I showed this to my wife and told her where I got it from, she would not let me wear the kilt again.

So tell her it came from a Trouser catalog. Sounds like a win-win scenario to me.

[jkane]

That is kind of the house I grew up in. Except that it was a farm, so Dad was in the house for 3 meals a day, not just dinner.

My wife started out like that, but in the last 15 years she has really let it slip. I do take her out to eat more often than not though. :-) She still has some guilty pains when I am not happy about the house status. They get less and less each passing year though. Ho-Hum. I guess the times, they are a changin'.

Kids ... don't even want to go there!

[Old Hippie]

That was Mum. It was also Dad, if you can imagine the mirror image of that article. My brother and I? Temporary boarders, tolerated and occasionally celebrated. We had an expiry date that matched our 16th birthdays because Dad left home at 16 and considered it a fit age for a man to be on his own. Or in the Army.

Were they both still alive, Mum and Dad would be celebrating 68 years of marriage this Sunday. Saturday would have been Dad's 96th birthday -- I'll lift a small toast in his honour in the little sake cup he brought back from his travels on the service during the "late unpleasantness."

I *have* shown that to my wife. She of Clan Comyn fixed me with a basilisk glare and announced that I was unprintably welcome to cook my own unprintable supper.

:ootd:

[Livingston]

That was Mum. <snip>
Were they both still alive, Mum and Dad would be celebrating 68 years of marriage this Sunday. <snip>

That would be mine also. My parents are still both with us and will be celebrating 62 years in April. With Mom's health issues the last couple years we don't know how long she will last and that is wearing on Dad. My wife and I visit them about every month because of that, it helps Dad.

[KiltedDixon]

So tell her it came from a Trouser catalog. Sounds like a win-win scenario to me.

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I will just not show it to her. Have a good day AFS1970.