Thank You, but Didn't You Know... (JFF)

Just one?!? hahaha
"Thank you for making dinner, but did you really need to use every pan, dish, utensil.... and leave them all for me to wash?"

Thank you for the flowers, but they'll be dead and stinky in a week. Didn't you know I wanted a new necklace?? :)

Thanks for feeding the baby, but him eating 2 whole oranges = really messy diaper... that you won't change.

or

Thanks for feeding the baby, but easter candy at 8pm = REALLY REALLY BAD IDEA!!!!!!! No candy!!

or

Thanks for taking the kids out for a daddy day on the boat, but there's this thing called sunscreen. They need it. Pass the aloe please!

or

Thanks for 'cleaning out the car', but now I get to dig through the garbage looking for my registration and owners manual and the directions to the new dentists office. Not every scrap of paper is garbage ;)

or

Thanks for watching the kids while I was at the store... and letting them play in the yard... after it's rained for 4 days... and literally hosing them off, IN THE YARD, with their clothes still on so the mud doesn't track in... and telling them, soaking wet, to go change... mop mop mop....

Thank you for expressing your opinion, but didn't you know I'm always right ;)

Or

Thank you for clearing the table, but didn't you know that you have to rinse out the milk cups before you stack them?

OR

Thank you for pointing out the laundry is still there, but didn't you know you have two good arms and two good legs to put it away yourself?

Thank you for doing the laundry, but didn't you know that pouring 1/2 a container of bleach directly onto the colors will ruin them?!?!??!

He's not allowed to do laundry any more. LOL! (He didn't realize that his mother had used clorox 2 when SHE did it... he thought they were the same things...) He was trying to surprise me by catching up the laundry, but actually ruined about 1/2 my wardrobe... *sigh* Next time, I hope he sticks to the dishes or something...

you all are so good-natured about it! i'm feeling genuinely pissy this morning about my men's generalized cluelessness.
we're leaving for england for 2 weeks, and my 20 year old claims to be so excited about having the place to himself and being in charge of it all. so my thank you but didn't you know is 'we're so glad we've got you here so we actually can go away for our longest vacation ever, but this is your home NOW! why can't you get that you are part of this little microcosm of society, not a hotel guest'?
khairete
S. (with a snarl)

Thank you for rinsing out the recyclables, but can you open the door and put them in the bin instead of piling them next to the sink????

Thank you for picking up in the kids bathroom, but didn't you know that when you put wet towels in the laundry basket with dry clothes and put them in the hot humid garage, they will mildew and so will the clothes you put them in with?

Cute post!

Thank you for getting a new roll of toilet paper from under the sink, but didn't you know it GOES ON THE ROLL??

Yeah, they seriously just don't know! mommy never taught them and they are too old and stubborn to learn from their wife. :)

My husband will boast about how he cleaned up dinner, which literally means he put leftovers in a container and put it in the fridge?! I love the thought, but what about all the dishes with food scraps, the table, the counter, etc...oh the joys of raising a husband! :)

.........that white and red make pink. Like Red's hubby, mine doesn't touch the laundry anymore. I would love the help, but I would prefer the clothing stay the color I purchased it.

I am the same, but usually with the supper dishes on the weekend. I work in the evenings on the weekend, I do make dinner and we eat as a family. Then I get ready for work and head out after hugs and kisses. I ALWAYS come home to find the dishes sitting in the sink or still on the stove (thankfully I trun the stove off once I am done cooking!). I do get pissed off because after all I did make dinner before I went to work, he could at least rinse everything and put it in the dishwasher! I have mentioned that he at least please put everything in the sink and put water on everything to soak, half the time that is done.

My hubby gets up way before I do in the morning, I always wake to a cereal bowl sitting on the counter right above the dishwasher. Seriously how hard is it to just stick it in the dishwasher? This one I am working on just letting it go, but it still bugs me I have just stopped "nagging" him about it.

Maybe he thinks I like cleaning? Does he know something I don't know? Thanks hubby!

Thank you for getting your laundry as far as the hamper, but the socks don't unball themselves, the teeshirts need to be taken out from inside the sweatshirt, and the nail/screws/pocketknives/pens/coins need to be emptied from the pockets!

Thank you for "making dinner" but chicken nuggets don't really count as cooking.

I would just be glad that he cleared the table lol That doesn't even happen...

Thank you for "straightening" the house but didn't you know all those papers I had tacked on the kitchen wall that you removed placed in the paper recycling then took to the recycling box were important art work that our children made were proud of and I wanted to keep for their memory boxes?

Thank you for cleaning out my car but didn't you know not all the pieces of paper are trash...like the receipts I need to claim your suits from the dry cleaners...or homework the kids were doing while we ran errands but still need to finish...phone numbers and directions I need to find the new dermatologist's office and call some new mom friend's for play dates? (Oh, and the last missing piece of the lego kit I found and put in a cup holder to return to my son is not trash either...it is been driving both me and son crazy to find it for weeks).

Thank you for collecting the recycling and taking it out but my stack of stained Tupperware bowls are NOT recycling but I use them for messy craft projects so my nice ones don't get stained.

Can you tell my husband love to help me by cleaning...but to him everything is trash or recycling...agh!!

thank you for emptying the dishwasher, but didn't you know that you're supposed to stack like things together, such as tupperware (so they don't all fall out when i open the cabinet) or PANS (again, so they don't all fall out when i open the cabinet) ... ouch ...

Thanks for watching our son but didn't you know that its not a good idea for letting him outside in a pull up, no pants or socks, shirt on backwards with riding on a scooter down the sidewalk.

Thank you for getting up with the kids and letting me sleep.....but.....the whole purpose is for someone to WATCH the kids (mainly the 1 yo), not barricade the baby in the living room so that you can go back to sleep (on the couch) yourself!!!

Our 3 year old DD has a gymnastics class once a week and twice I have asked hubby to help out by getting her into her leotard to get ready to go. The first time, she was not potty-trained yet (still in a pull-up), and he got into the leotard, and put a shirt and leggings over it. When I got her to class and took the shirt and leggings off, I saw that he had the leotard on her backwards. I told him about it later, as in, "Didn't you notice one side is wider at the bottom and that's what goes in the back?" The second time was just last week - DD is now potty trained and it was after her class that I realized that hubby had put her in the leotard without any underpants! I was like, wow, really? I called him about something else and then mentioned it to him - "She still needs underwear with her leotard! It's not a swimsuit!"

So I guess mine would be "Thanks for getting DD ready for gymnastics class by getting her into her leotard, but don't you know that you had it on her backwards and she still needs underpants on with it?"