Just so that nobody is confused, I’d like to introduce myself. I am Kris or Kristofor, depending on who’s asking. As i’m sure you can gather I’m Lindsay’s Husband and Meredith’s father. I decided to provide an alternate perspective to this blog about our lives, something that might be lacking if all you ever got was how Lindsay was feeling or what she was thinking.
I’m not positive how often I’ll be posting, not because of a lack in interest, but because I have lots of other things on the go and my memory is like a sieve. But hopefully I can round out this discussion about how we live and how we parent.
Another note, if you comment please don’t expect an answer. I’m not very good at keeping track of what I do and likely anything I post will be passing in nature. I may look at comments, but I’m just as likely to forget I ever posted.
In any case, you’ll probably find me interjecting my own little bits whenever I can. Starting with this:
Probably one of my biggest pet peeves is the fact that society in general has a very low opinion of guys and their skills at things like parenting and household chores. Commercials are a perfect example. A food commercial where the guy is cooking is probably an advertisment for KFC or microwavable dinners or maybe two college guys cooking KD on a heater vent while staring at the half naked chicks walking by. Commercials about cleaning the house? The only guy you’ll see is Mr Clean who looks more like the Genie from Aladdin (only not blue) than anybody you’d find walking down the street. Apparently we all just floated from Mom’s cooking and cleaning to getting married and having a wife to cook and clean with nothing in between.
There may be some men that are just cruising along doing nothing (shame on them) but there are just as many of us putting in our time and effort to make the house run as smoothly as possible and getting marginalized anyway. If I hear one more person say something like “Oh, its so nice to see a father holding the baby”, I might snap and do something unfortunate…
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Aww too true!!
I know plenty of guys that are wicked cooks, and actually like doing it! There are just as many men willing to do housework as there are women who hate it (which is a lot). My ex used to do the dishes, vaccuming and laundry while I did the cooking and basic tidying. I got the easy end and he didn’t mind!
Good for you, please don’t snap!
Ha, my favorite is people referring to a father looking after their children as babysitting.
I am not ashamed to say that Kris is better at housework than I am, and he used to do all the cooking (though I’m a pretty darn good cook now!).