Simple Household Project? Not With My Husband!!!!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend! We attended church on Sunday and the music, special programs and the sermon were emotionally charged and so touching. Jamey's mom performed an interpretive dance and with her recent diagnosis of cancer combined with the lyrics of the song, her body language, and the raw emotion on her face the whole congregation was in tears by the time the dance was over.

After church Jamey's mom took the kids to an egg hunt at one of her girlfriend's parents house. Jamey and I decided not to go because the whole shelving system in my closet collapsed late Saturday night and I had clothes everwhere so we decided we would fix that while the kids were entertained with an egg hunt. (We did go to my family's big egg hunt on Saturday so I did watch my kids hunt eggs the day before...I am not that terrible.) :-)

How long could it possibly take to run to Home Depot, grab some wood, screws and paint and slap up some reinforcements for the closet rods????? Five flippin hours if you are my husband!!!!! He literally stood on the screw isle for like 15 minutes....got the wood....went back to the screw isle.....got the paint.....and NO KIDDING went back to the screw isle!!!!! I refused to go back that time. We get home and I was in charge of priming the wood after he cut it to size. He was moving at snails pace and honey I was slapping primer on like my very life depended on it....he didn't like how I was doing it so I came in and started reading. Hours ticked by, my mother in law took the kids back to her house after the egg hunt and I eventually just went over to her house and left him to his task. After 4 hours he only got my closet done. He still has two more closets to go...they didn't collapse but they are only hanging on by a thread so we want to reinforce them too. I am definately going to be gone that day!

He is such a perfectionist and that does have it's advantages but should you really take like 4 hours...which does not include the time it took to shop for materials...to finish a very simple household task? The reason it really made me feel like I could pull my hair out strand by strand is because when I got back home with the kids the house was pretty much torn apart....ladders, extension cords, scrap wood, my clothes on hangers piled on my bed and he wasn't able to help me with the kids who were binging off the walls on due to their severe sugar highs. I finally got everything put back in place, the kids bathed and in bed by 10:00. I have a strict bedtime of 8:00 for my kids and I was very frazzled that they were getting in bed so late...especially on a school night.

All is well now, my closet is fixed and Jamey feels like he has accomplished something. I think every man should use a power tool every now and then...I guess it is food for their soul....kind of like shopping is for us! :-)