Husband home all day how do you manage with the housework and

It is just that I want to vacuum the living room, and when do I do it? Get up in the middle of the night? He is watching TV in the morning, and the evening, and I do not feel right of having the vacuum on while he watches his favorite show.
When he is on the computer, that I can do it, but then I am also on the other computer as well, and that leads to another problem.
And I am also fixing up the basement as well. So if he is down there, I am helping up the studs up, holding them up while he nails them in.

I hate telling him "move your feet"

pola,

I love your solution! so long as it is said nicely that should create no problems.

Honey, this floor really needs vacuumed and I hate to interrupt your show - I will just leave the vacuum here then so when your show is over you can give it a quick run over.
thanks, love! now I can do the dusting and not have to worry about whether the floor is vacuumed!

...we know how to be demanding in very nice way....

yes indeed! that is the trick to our manipulative ways - we get them to think we are not demanding! it is really nice when they can think that an idea we plant in their heads is truly their own idea!

My husband will help out but he is the one who says "you missed a spot" so I prefer to do the vacuuming myself. I am, however, scared of heights so I get him to change the light bulbs. (My arm cannot reach and I am afraid of falling off the chair.)

He happens to be the critical type so I tend to clean the rooms he is not in. I also clean before he gets up, and it is taking like forever. And when he is listening to his radio plays I cannot even clean the computer room. I have some magazines I want to put in a folder. And when I bought one of those mops to clean the kitchen floor, he complained, but it works much better than the sponge mop we had before so now it is all right. I will have to get a refill so I can have one in the wash and one to clean the floor.

I wait until he is out the room and at some distance (like in the garage) so I can clean what I can without problem. But now he has had his stroke, he is laying on the couch more often when he is not on the computer. And when he wants to exercise, I have to go to the Mall with him in case he loses his balance, so I have no time alone to clean the house.
So I am stuck until I do not have to worry about him falling.

That sounds like me when he was working on Afternoon shift. He would be sleeping until ten and then he would go in the living room, and by the time he went to work, well I was busy doing everything else and it is hard to vacuum and watch Tv at the same time.

And I suppose that no one was as good as his mother and you could eat off the floor at her house. Right?

Haha! You know it. Only one person could cook better than his mom too. His grandmother.

That's for sure. Only she was starting to grow senile when he was growing up so i did not have to worry about that. My husband came from a large family.

That is how I feel. I do not like anyone in the house when I am cleaning unless it is to move heavy furniture or change a light bulb or if something breaks, but for just vacuuming the floor or washing the floor, and putting away the dishes, I can do that well myself without any help.

He cannot do it until he gets over his stroke. We were just about to call the inspectors and put in the electrical outlets (not that he needs to, he is good at electricity, but he had to change the plumbing) when I told him that he was sick, so he went to the doctor and they told him he had a slight stroke. So now he has to get better. So there are no more surprises as to find out what breaker works for what, that is until he can move around a little better.
The bonus part about it, we are getting out for coffee more often - mall walking.

I can do that. We will not have any more problems until the inspectors come in, and that will not happen until he gets over his stroke. Then our sons have to come for their pool table, the old computers, I have to take all their old books to Value Village, get rid of the old medical books, etc. That is going to take some time.

I agree. You should be glad your husband gets to be home and there with you at the house. I hate that my husband has to work all day and when he gets home he is so tired that he just doesnt feel up to doing anything or going out with me so really its not like the house needs to be vacuumed everyday so every couple of days when he is downstairs just run the vacuum through the living room. Really its not like it takes 30 mins to vacuum a room.

You don't know my husband he likes a clean house. I also do not like anything on the floor. It is just that I also have been brought up not to disturb anyone so there is this conflict there. I also do not think that i should not just let him lay there on the couch when the carpet needs cleaning just because he is still alive. I doubt you did that when your husband was around.