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Article: Quit telling family members how to do chores
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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After delivering my fourth child, in six years, I felt a tad
overwhelmed. My thoughtful hardwood floor-installing husband offered
to do household chores while I rested upstairs, and first on the list
(on any woman's list) was the Dreaded Linoleum Kitchen Floor.
Mentally calculating the time needed for the remaining chores, I
figured the floor should take him only 20 minutes. For those of you
who are laughing at this plan, remember I was on pain killers. An
hour and a half later I could stand it no longer. What was he doing,
painting the Sistine Chapel? Bravely, I waddled to the top of the
stairs where I saw him -- pushing his hardwood floor machine with
buffer pad over the linoleum, shaking ...