Well, the time has come once again…longer days, budding blooms, quiet balmy nights on the countryside. We’re just lovin’ it out here. I’ve chosen not to make any outdoor commitments this year (example: gardening), due to my twin-fliction. But until I’m banished to bedrest (hopefully never!) I love being out and about with my man. He found himself an old gun in my Grandpa’s shed, and decided it was time he start practicing up. Double barrel shotgun… one barrel for each of his daughter’s future prom dates. He repaired the gun, cleaned it, and took her for a ride.
Men…
Along with spring comes many hours of mowing each week, which my lover does with a good attitude. Mowing 5 acres isn’t something I would jump out of bed on a Saturday morning to happily go accomplish. I’m sure it has a certain calming, relaxing effect. And it gives the boy time to think about all the ways our lives are about to change.
After a long day of mowing, do you think it’s too much for me to ask to have my beloved rinse off in the shower? I think not, because this is what I woke up to all over his pillow:
EW.
Help me out here ladies. Am I being unappreciative and nagging to ask him to shower before coming to bed when he’s been working out on the acreage? Should I embrace his rugged, hardworking nastiness?
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I agree that its not nagging… I am very particular about my sheets and so after 5 years of marriage I don’t even need to suggest the shower – it goes without saying : if you are sleeping in my bed, you better not stink! 🙂
Thanks for backing me up, girls! And actually, I think seeing the photo of his nasty pillow may have changed him forever… how easy was that?!
I can’t believe he wouldn’t want to shower after working outside! But being positive does work, tell him how hot and sexy he is when he’s clean and smells fresh, that often does the trick!
Considering it takes guys literally 2 minutes to shower, no, it’s not too much to ask! Now if he were a she and had hair to deal with/get dry it might be asking too much.. but every “she” I know wouldn’t want to sleep in that nastiness anyway 😉
offer to wash his back or rub his feet after the shower? As you will find in your parenting days ahead….positive reinforcement ( formerly known as bribery) pays off! Good luck
This cracks me up. Just last night I said something to my husband about showering because we had been working on the yard and smelled like outside. I usually go for the passive aggressive hint and I’m like it will only take like 3 minutes to shower…
I already change my sheets once a week and really don’t want to make it twice a week. I just CAN’T sleep in dirty sheets. Camping, no problem for me, but dirty sheets no I can’t!
My husband gets offended when I ask him to bathe at night, he prefers to wait until the morning. Sometimes he’ll do it for me, but mostly I’ve learned to deal with it, lol. (I don’t see how he can sleep without showering after spending the day in 120* dusty attics in the summer though!)
Ask him to join you in the shower. That would get the job done!!!
tell him it really bothers your allergies. or you could go out and hose him off before he comes inside….that might get his attention. lol
Well it’s not really nagging.. But you just gotta say it in a nice way for him to shower. Or even have him just shake out the grass from his hair before laying down! 😛
If he knows where his bread is buttered, he’d better hose off before climbing into bed with little mama.
soooo funny…hihihi that’s men for ya.