Travis (my Husband)
My husband and I are total opposites, perfectly paired and we go together like peas and carrots. I would even dare to say soul mates. I love my husband BUT…. to quote the legend Tina Turner “what’s love got to do with it”? To be honest he drives me nutty. I’m not a naturally domestic person. I have learned to enjoy it (sometimes) but cooking and making sure the men in my life have what they need is something I’ve had to work at. I cook almost every evening and it is a huge challenge as to what to make for dinner night after night. To come up with interesting, good tasting, relatively healthy dinner options are tough. Do you feel my pain? To add even more complication to the mix, my husband has been a vegetarian for 27 years. He hasn’t eaten any meat for 27 years! Now before you go and get all impressed with his disciplined eating habits, let me add that he doesn’t like most vegetables and fruits either. I mean he doesn’t even like macaroni and cheese. So a better description of him is “the pickiest in all of history vegetarian”. So two days ago I ask “what would you like for dinner honey” and he answered his usual, “I don’t care, I’m flex, BUT by the way I’m on a low carb diet so no carbs”. Y’all I lost it! I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I mean if you don’t eat meat OR carbs, and you don’t like most veggies, what is left?! So now I’m on the hunt for vegetarian low carb meal options that’s easy to make, in addition to cooking for my 2 growing boys who are carnivores. So Travis not eating meat and no carbs is causing me to stress eat chocolate and bread. Bread, bread I love bread J. I’m telling you being a wife, mom and a woman is the toughest job on the planet!
Do you have “I love my husband BUT” story…… I’d love to hear it!
Single here but I don’t eat meat either. Seek out some spaghetti squash recipes like an alfredo sauce or a casserole where you use some tomato sauce and cheese like a baked zitti. Stir-fry veggies he does like with some shrimp and/or scallops? Big baked potatoes topped with some veggie bean chilli? (All my faves.) Soups, casseroles all work for me. Have you ever made a tofurkey? I find it in the tofu section. A crudite platter with some hummus?
Good luck!
Hummus is a staple at our house.
I love my husband BUT lordy, I wish he would de-clutter. Words of wisdom here. When a person marries when she is 47 and he is 45, both parties are gonna have a lot of stuff. Be prepared to learn to live with his stuff. It’s been hard to get him to purge his stuff. I have purged my stuff at least three times in the nearly 5 years we have been married
Mine “collects” things. I have bins full of toys, baseball cards and even shorts from the eighties.
Well, sorry Kim my story is not a food story, but is just about as frustrating. We own 2 cars, the good car and the “other” car. I drive the good car most of the time, but if he takes, he is supposed to gas it up if takes it. Well, Wednesday he went to go out with the guys, which is great, but I decided to stay home and catch up on my DVR shows. I thought he took the other car. When he got home I was asleep and in the morning he left to travel to work into the city (Boston). That’s why he takes the crap car. I had to drive North to Billerica for a job interview. I always give myself extra time when I am not sure where I am going. Plus, I wanted to stop at Starbucks for coffee because I had no time to make it. So, I was walking to the car, got in and started it and I looked at the gas gauge and guess what, “NO GAS”. I didn’t know he took the car, let alone didn’t fill up the tank. Thank goodness I had extra time, but this is typical him. I called after the interview and asked him, and he said, “oh my gosh honey I am so sorry, did you make it. Kim, Massachusetts had a rain Nor’easter today. It was pouring buckets. I told him he should thank the good Lord and everybody else that was looking out for him today that I had enough gas to find a full service station. So yes, I love my husband……but.
By the way…tell Mr. Gravel he is quite a looker. You both look great together.
Be Blessed.
Lisa I feel your pain sis!
I love my husband and he is my gift from God, But the noise that man makes eating apples and he eats one every night I know one day I am going to be standing before a judge saying ” yes your honor I hit him with a bat “
Girl I laughed out loud so hard when I read this. My husband has RLS (restless leg syndrome) at night he is like running a marathon. Its all I can do not to slap him! 🙂 Love him with everything that I am though!
KIM, Kim, Kim. Honey after 50 + years of marriage and asking , “what you want to eat” and getting the question, “what you got” answered by “look for your self and let me know”, along with “that ain’t the way Mama cooked it”, answered with, ” I ain’t your Mama honey”, I have gone flat and I mean FLAT. LOVE him, but don’t really LIKE him at times. That’s love and marriage, right?
You sound like my mama!
My husband has so many food allergies to meats, vegetables, sweets. The only thing he can eat is grass without gas or a stuffy nose is grass….and when he gets sick… He has to keep reminding me that he is sick!!! I live in the same house as you.. I know you have a cold… He is a big baby..
LOL
I love my hubby “but” I wish I could spend more time with him. He works a lot. I am a cancer survivor twice and have had other health issues which has caused me not to work. Now I am recovering from back surgery with a year to recover. Its been 6 months. Uggg. Yea, I miss my hubby.
Praying for you!
How about quiche? The basic recipe I use is high protein, low carb and you can add what ever mix-in he will eat. I’d like to hear if/how this works for you!
Grease a casserole dish
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup shred cheese
(32 oz) scrambled eggs
1/2 cup of liquid (cream/salsa/stock etc)
S & p, Slap ya Mama seasoning – all to taste
Then a cup of chopped whatever.
Bake uncovered at 350 until knife comes out clean (usually for me about an hour, but depends on your mix-ins) Note that it will rise during cooking, then settle as it cools.
Best wishes honey!
Trying this!
I can totally relate about the hubby! Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! We just moved in, boxes are stacked to the ceiling in the garage, and hubby comes home & want to know where the dog brush is right away-while I’m cooking dinner, helping kid 1’who was dragging her feet on her homeschool project, and changing kid 3’s diaper. Also, I’ve been married 8 years, & have 3 kids, and you are just telling me now you don’t like cooked carrots??
Just keep laughing-someday we’ll look back on these days as ‘the good old days’!
We have food issues in my family too. Hubby & I do low-carb, kid 2 has lots of food allergies (eggs, wheat, chicken, shellfish), kids 1 & 3 are fussy-but still need the carbs. Sometimes I make 3 variations of the same dinner. Keeps life interesting. 🙂
Check out Whole Foods or similar places for meat alternatives. Tofu/wheat gluten meat substitutes really help, as do konjac/konnyaku low-carb noodles. We aren’t vegetarian, but do eat meatless on Fridays & during Lent/assorted meatless fasting days. Vegetarian Times website/magazine are great for ideas too.
Good luck & happy eating! 🙂
You are superwomen. We do it all.
I love my husband but he always forgets to let the dog out. So knowing I was angry with him last night he let the dog out and forgot to let him back in. The dog started barking like crazy and woke up the baby. Our dog only goes outside for 5 minutes max and today was my day off so I wanted to sleep in till 7am. Didn’t happen!
Sounds VERY familiar.
My husband had a close call with his heart maybe 6 weeks ago. He kept telling me he needed Day quill I’m like honey no one needs that stuff for weeks and weeks. So I made him go Doc says it’s a miracle he’s walking around he had surgery. So fast forward to today again he’s telling me he doesn’t feel good but needs Day quill everytime I worry or question it or mention that it’s similar. I’m “Nagging” I love my husband but how am I supposed to know if he’s got a cold or is having chest pains and he won’t go to the doctor. Sigh…..men!
Love, love, love you Kim! I feel your pain too. “What do you want for dinner?” Him, “I don’t know, what do you want?” Me “I don’t know, that’s why I asked you” I get to the point I even call our kids. 20 plus years, so over it. But, I wouldn’t trade him for the world!
Love my husband but… Sir, yes I’m talking to you! Contrary to popular belief, we do not have a self emptying trash can, either you or I have to do it. You are not the best roommate at this season of our life dear (30 years). I’m not your mother, maid, or one of our children. The furkids do not have thumbs, so they are not helping either. After this rant, I look at the table and see the box that his hearing aids reside in, yea you guessed it, I emptied the trash!!!
Classic!
Whoooo-hooooo Girl friend!! You go!! LOL
I love my husband, BUT…… He cannot finish a project to save his life!!
Example: He has been building me an in-the-wall jewelry armoire for Mother’s Day. Great idea, right?? It was, back in 2012, when he started building the darn thing!
Kim,
YES! I understand fully, only in your scenario, I’d be your picky husband! While I am not vegetarian, I am particular on what I eat and I AM on a low-carb diet. I am also diabetic, so all these things make for a sometimes clueless “wife” at home.
There are many low-carb recipes out there. Pinterest has some, and generally you can find them on any cooking website like allrecipes.com (http://allrecipes.com/search/default.aspx?qt=k&wt=lowcarb&rt=r&origin=Home%20Page). I’ll be honest, I haven’t found a low/no carb replacement for bread that I would eat.
Here’s the thing, if you can get him to agree to low carb as a compromise, your job would be so much easier. Diabetics usually eat under 100 carbs a day and I keep to that myself and it has resulted in satisfactory weight loss. Plus, it’s not all that difficult to deal with. Of course, my typical meal would be a meat and veg, but not being vegetarian makes it easier.
To be brutally honest, his restrictive diet is not your problem. Since you already cook on the healthy side, provide him with those choices and if he doesn’t want to eat it, he can do what I do. Make it myself.
I give my partner very broad guidelines. No bread, pasta or rice. (Believe me, I’d love to eat them but …..). I don’t want anything fried, but on the occasion that she just doesn’t feel like cooking my meat separately from everyone else, I will compromise that night by either eating it or making something myself. I am extremely grateful that on most nights, (and days, because she packs my lunch also), she is mindful of my diet.
It sounds to me like you are a great wife, just by your concern for meeting his requests. Sometimes, a little flexibility is in order and it’s a two-way street.
I can tell you that if dinner on a particular night isn’t something I can have, I don’t think any less of my “wife” for not having something I can eat available. I am an adult and can certainly make my own dinner. Heck, I survived when I was single!
Thanks for sharing your life with us, Kim. I do miss you terribly on your show, but I am really thankful for your reaching out with your blog.
God bless.
Pitbull Robin
I love my husband BUT… he stacks… EVERYTHING! He has stacks of papers, CDs, DVDs, mail. Anything that can stack on something else will! And, he puts his stacks of whatever anywhere there is a blank space. No empty area is safe. If there isn’t furniture against a secton of the wall, his form of cleaning is to put his stack from desktop to the floor…at the empty space! Ugh. I clean (throw away) old stacks and BOOM a new one magically appears. It infuriates me! 🙂 I guess I should be happy he doesn’t get mad that I throw them away…eventually…
Kim I can understand you frustration! My husband and a Tool Fetish!
He collects so many tools! He works on roads on our New York thruway and if he finds a tool he brings it home!
When we ate driving somewhere he can spot a tool on the road he picks it up and bring it home!
He can spot a tool anywhere at ten paces!!!
I look at him and just nod my head and lord help me please!!!
But the one more thing I have a problem with is his hot sauce! He puts it on everything! He cannot live with out it! I feel I need to take up stock because buys it so much!!!
I understand how ya feelin girl!!!
I love my husband, But..I need my space the first hour of the morning..yeah, I am not a morning person. I like to get my coffee, my devotional, sit in my spot and talk to Jesus and nobody else. I have been married 18 years and have repeatedly talked to my husband about this, however, he stills ask me a ton of questions and gets all up in my space…which by the way, is scary space..hey, if he wants to release the cracken, that’s on him…He’s had fair warning.
Oh sista, I feel for you! Much like you, I have LEARNED to be domesticated over the years and struggle every night to did something acceptable to eat! Though not a vegetarian my husband fluctuates like the wind between eating “Paleo” and eating all the crap he can get his hands on! AND I have two teenage daughters!! How about soup? Surely you can pretty much dismantle some veggies in a soup where he won’t know they’re there!!
Kim,
I share the opposite with you. My man NEEDS meets (according to him) and I would rather go the fish or veggie option.
There is a brand of Mediterranean patties, they are coated with light bread crumbs and herbs, stuffed with spinach and chickpeas. Warm up in oven for less then 15mins and you got a meal. You can even coat it with Hummus on top. (Trust me, your husband won’t be able to taste the spinach 🙂 Most importantly, they will fill him up! I have self proclaimed myself the MASTER of sneaking in veggies in my husband’s food. Also, when in desperate need for ideas….PINTREST!
Love ya lady! 🙂
i love my dear hubby but he drives me crazy not putting stuff back then asks me where it is. His garage was so messy that I decided to orga nice it, so wrenches gives with wremncges, screw drivers with screw drivers ,eye. Then he hired in there , can’t find anything blamed me and bands me from his garage except at the door where the rakes are? He bought me a riding lawn mower a couple years ago and it stays in his garage do now I am able to go father in, but just to get the mower. His other thing is going to bed to watch TV with channel changer in his hand. Gies to sleep and daushand eats it. This has happened before . And don’t get me started about young to sleep with lasers on and the black lab chewing them up…I think he’s up to 4 pairs of glasses that’s been replaced
Kim just give him some benidrill in his water that way when he wakes up and wants to know what’s for supper you can say hun don’t you remember you already ate LOL Love you kim
I love my Husband (and son) BUT…. Before my daughter got married last December I went and had eyelashes put on, the individual ones that take 2 hours to put on. Be careful they said don’t get them wet for 24 hours. I was very careful for 24 hours. At 26 hours I was making dinner for my husband and son, (who also answer I don’t care ). I opened the oven door, the heat rushed out and melted my new eyelashes. It looked like I had 2 giant black spiders stuck to my eyes. But the worst part? Neither of them came home for dinner that night. Both had dinner meetings they forgot to tell me about. P.S The eyelash lady laughed until she cried and replaced my eyelashes no charge
I love my husband endlessly, BUT…well, it’s actually him and the kids. Evidently I have Menu written on my forehead because EVERY time they get hungry they want me to run down a list of meal ideas! For crying out loud, everyone in my home is old enough to cook, and menu plan, for themselves!
Every Monday night my mature, senior citizen husband turns into a 10 year old He flops into the recliner, grabs the remote and channels up and down untill he finds WWE,… WORLD WRESTLING ENTERAINMENT! That’s the show where 7 foot tall, 450 lb. men wearing tights that wouldn’t fit a Barbie Doll bounces around in a wrestling ring, beating themselves on their chest challenging 15 other funny looking guys in a “DEATH MATCH!” And if their wordrobe isn’t silly enough, they’ve all got goofy names like; The Big Show, or The Undertaker, Gold Dust and The Rock. They take turns at who is going to be the good guys versus the bad guy, so of course the bad guys sneak behind the obvious blind refere’s back to throw down “The Hammer” or inflict the intense pain of the “Stun Bun” to the motionless wrestler laying on the ring floor. I gently try to tell my husband that it’s all fake, they are actors and should one of them accidently get a scratch or bloody nose they play it up to the hilt. His reply is; Yeah,… I know,… “DID YOU SEE THAT??” “ROCK!!! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!!!”
Yes,… I love the boy,..er’ man I married, but,….
Haha! Where do I begin? I love my husband of almost 4 years BUT…leaving a trail of your clothes along the floor that lead to the bathroom as you shower after work drives me NUTS! I guess the two laundry baskets that are available in the vicinity aren’t enough. Oh, and don’t get me started on the daily struggle to help him remember or find where he put his wallet, keys, or shoes. The house isn’t that big…they didn’t just grow legs and walk away. If I want to be sassy I throw in the occasional, “If you would put them all in the same place every time we wouldn’t go through this every day.” I can’t even remember how many phones or ipad screens he’s replaced and I’ve come to the conclusion that he just can’t have nice things! Oh and one more thing…I’m not sure if he gets some thrill of leaving everything to last minute but for a person who is a type A personality and likes to plan things out in advance it drives me crazy. Anything from not making reservations for dinner making us wait an hour or so to be seated when one simple phone call could have been made to throwing some clothes into a suitcase and shoving it all into the car for our road trip. Nonetheless I still love his as I’m sure there are things I do that drive him crazy as well.
Kim you explained my life on this post!! Lol I’m recently married and I love my husband but good God his answer to dinner every night is I don’t care but also doesn’t eat veggies and fruit meanwhile in trying to eat those things! Love you Kim!
Thanks for sharing! I love my husband but when Im rocking a crying 10 month old at 2:45 am & have to be up at 6:30 am to go to work & my husband is off work the next day do not raise up out of bed & ask me to get you something to drink when Im done with the baby!!! If I wouldnt have scared the baby & woke the 10 yo, I would have screamed! I love him, but really!!!! Men! Lol
I love my husband BUT the way he and my mom pick at each other drives me up a tree. (she lives with us) They both needle each other and then look to me to referee. Uh no thanks, there’s no scenario there where I come out unscathed lol.
i have always told my husband ” I married you for better or worse, but not for lunch”. Don’t be in the house at lunchtime!
I live with a very picky eater as well. It’s really hard to cook for. After a while you get tired of the same dishes. I’ve been hunting for new things to make that he will eat. Tell ya us women have to sick together to help one another out so we can find meals for our families. love ya kim, miss your show so much. Your great on Steve Harvey and I can’t wait for you to come back to TV soon. 🙂
My son is picky too. It’s a stretch to keep him healthy and happy.
I love my husband BUT we shouldn’t talk politics he thinks mine should be the same as his. I grew up after age 5 here in Texas my husband is European with a much different few of what he believes is okay. I can say though that being married to him I’ve learned to pull a dinner party spread together in record time. He does keep very well stocked in platters and serving dishes.
i Love my Husband….but if he forgets to charge my wheelchair one more time, he is gonna need one. JK..Lol
He is a gr8 husband and I’m very grateful to have him in my life, even if I do have to sit on half a charge
I love my husband but, he loves football. This, on the surface, is fine! I enjoy a good game, too! But this is what drives me crazy. He stays up to watch Sunday night football, and he won’t come to bed. He sleeps on the couch with the tv on all night. If I see him sleeping, I wake him up, say “why don’t you come to bed, love?” and turn the tv off. He then asks me to turn it back on, and swears to me that he was watching it the whole time! Homeboy was SNORING 10 minutes before! hahahaha. It gets me every single time. I’m sure he has even more “I love my wife BUT” stories than I have though! haha!
i love my husband but….he is an organizational nightmare and a pack rat! When we first got married (26 years ago) we were only 19. I thought he would grow out of it. Silly me! As we lived in bigger homes, he collected more stuff! Then I grew wise and realized that God gave me hunting season for a reason. He gets to go hunting guilt trip free with my full blessing. In return, I get to organize and declutter his office and closet. I’m respectful and don’t toss things of meaning or worth. But let’s be serious, he does not need to keep his high school soccer cletes that have not fit for 15 years! Sounds like s silly arrangement I know. But it works for us. Both our needs get met 🙂
Omg y’all I am cracking up reading these. My husband is an Army vet with PTSD,a grannies boy and now police officer who works third shift. Who first off gives a man with PTSD a gun…..only in SC. Then now that he’s on third shift my whole house is. Noone sleeps at night then when he comes home and sleeps all day he yells at me for letting him. He’s a grown man set an alarm clock if you want up. And OMG I hate eating dinner with him. I want to hurt him when he eats the sound is unbelievable. It’s like he can’t breath…..so between the eating not sleeping and snoring (which everyone can hear)…..I am gonna hurt someone
seriously. But I have loved him for 15 years so God must have a plan I don’t see. Lord Jesus help me
I love my husband, but… I’m SO GLAD he’s going hunting this weekend!
Low carb vegetarian here!! Well, full disclosure, I do sometimes eat fish and shrimp, so I guess I’m more of a part-time pescatarian. Anyhow, there are many soy and vegetable based meat substitutes that actually taste pretty good! I like to call them “faux”: chicken, beef, etc. They have burgers, patties, nuggets, crumbles, almost any form you can think of. Prep in normal recipes, sauce and all, and I bet even your boys would enjoy. Low carb and high protein. Good luck.
I love my husband but good Lord, could he please shut the door when he’s using the bathroom? I mean I love him but I sure don’t want to smell all that. I like a little privacy myself.
I love my husband but he drives me nuts not being able to pick anything up. He will get onto our children about leaving messes but it is ok for the biggest child in the house to leave his messes all over. And don’t get me started on not being able to hit the dirty clothes basket but then again I refuse to wash anything that isn’t in there so he has gotten better about that after he had to wear his no scent hunting clothes to work one day! Sans underwear and socks!
Kim,
I love my husband but…oh there are quite a few buts! One of the biggest is the “I don’t know!” response I get about EVERY question I ask. Honey what are we going to do about the boys’ behavior, “I don’t know.” What do you want for dinner, “I don’t know.” Every response starts with I don’t know! Now we are talking about a pretty intelligent, successful man. I have to ask him, do you tell your employees “I don’t know” every time they ask a question. Many times he will say, I don’t know because I haven’t done this before, and I am like ” I haven’t either.” He just expects me to figure everything out all the time! He says, “Baby you are just good at solving things.” I am sure you can guess why I have more grey hair than he does! I love my husband but….if I hear “I don’t know” one more time, I don’t know what I am going to do
Say HI to Travis. He went to RSBC with both my late kids (Randy & Deena). Ask him if he wants some of my cake!!!! Blessings and Merry Christmas from Marietta. /Royce.
I love my husband, but…..that statement may be my anthem. We have been married for over 20 years, and due to his job we actually don’t spend that much time together. He is gone for weeks at a time. When he is home, it is usually for two weeks at a time. Any more longer than that, and it is time for him to return to work! I am good for about 10 days before I am looking for a gun in the night, LOL.
Larry is a meat and taters man. If it moos he drools. As you can imagine he has health issues. It is not unusual for me to get a phone call from a hospital near where he is working. This last time he was in South Texas and I was in Oklahoma working when the hospital found out he had a wife and they needed to call me. This episode was serious. It scared him enough he quit smoking. He was home for about 2 weeks, and for the first time in our married life he finished the honey do list.
I have 2 girls (one who just dipped her toes into the pageant works and now has a bad case of pageant fever). Tonight, the 14 year old declared that she wanted to eat only fish protein. Not to be out done by her older sister, the 11 year old decided the only protein she was eating would be chicken. I assured them that after teaching all day and acting as their chauffer, I had little to no desire to be a short order cook and they could cook on a regular basis from now on. Both girls decided the spaghetti with meat sauce I made was delicious and they’re looking forward to the soup beans, fried potatoes, and cornbread I have planned for tomorrow!
Ummm…my husband drives me nutty because he has a totally empty dresser that is all his and he refuses to put his clothes in it! Drives me nuts! Shirts and underwear are piled high on top of the dresser.
My husband is also a vegetarian and I am gluten free, so I feel like I know exactly what you’re dealing with there. AND we have little ones who love meat. I also really struggle with getting dinner on the table! ; ).
I love “beyond meat” as a beef substitute, and make a lot of chili, curry, and enchiladas.
I got engaged on 3/19/2015 I will be back to leave my
#Iluvmyhusbandbut comment when I say I do
Ms. Kim…I do love watching Kim of Queens, however….Deb/Haanah and Eunice…if they know so much then why bring their daughters to the Pageant Place?…ok, so now I got off track….I love my husband, but, he’s not my husband…he’s somebody else’s…NOOOOOT!!!! lol…he is my boyfriend of three years…never complains about what I cook or when, always eats every bite and I get a nice big kiss and a thank you after the meal is over….BUT, and yes, there is always a but….he has a tendency to sleep walk sometimes especially when I wake him up in the middle of the night…well, this is how my story began….we have a dog, a wee dog, a tiny dog, a loud mouth sack of wind that makes me hotter than a hog in heat sometimes….anyway, this dog annoyed me to the point that he was put outside last winter to spend the night with …the outside dogs so that he would appreciate the fact that he sleeps inside….well, about 2:30 am, this dog is still yapping in the backyard…it’s closed in so the dogs can run loose…I woke jerry up and told him to go get that little yapper so our neighbors could sleep…after 20 minutes of pushing his butt out of bed, he finally motivated himself to the backdoor…the next thing I heard was, “COME HERE BOY, COME ON HERE BOY COME ON”…now mind you, the dog is probably 8 inches tall at most, and there is a 7 foot high fence and gate keeping him in the back yard….so, I had to get up, drag jerry back into the house….before the neighbors saw him in his tidy whiteys standing on a deck yelling for a dog who would never come…I guided him back in the door and went out to get the yapper myself….I figured, shoot, he’s half asleep, he’ll wander around the utility room aimlessly until I get back with the dog…NOOOOT…when I got back in the house, I started in to go back to bed, and couldn’t find jerry anywhere….I also have a son, by the way…he’s 14 and can sleep through an atomic bomb going off in his ear….anyhoo….I could hear laughter coming from my sons room and figured he was having one heck of a dream….so, curiosity killed many a cat and almost done me in that night….I turned on his light and he was sitting straight up in his bed, laughing hysterically…when I asked him where jerry was, he told me to look out on the front porch….I opened the door and it’s a wonder some homeless person hadn’t called the police on us…jerry was wandering aimlessly about on the front porch, still calling for the dog, and yes, still in his underwear…my son, had guided him to the front door and opened it up and helped him outside….I finally got him back in the house and back in bed with an electric blanket….I forgot to mention it was -4 degrees outside with a wind chill of -15…next day?…he didn’t remember a thing……
I love my husband but…….He purchased a motorcycle the day after we got married without telling me! I had to have ‘the talk’ with him about how we are partners now in EVERYTHING! Then I followed behind him as he drove it home from the dealership. (I thought I might run over him, but then I looked at that cute little butt and I knew that would not happen!)
Well, the motorcycle has been parked in my garage now for 2 years, and I have dared him to ride it without me riding behind him in my car. Then, yesterday he decided to ride it to work all the way down to the market at Charleston and of course, he did not tell me!! I freaked out! I called him when I found out! I drove all the way down to where he works and followed him home….. 🙁 I have tried to explain why I am so concerned about him riding. I know he is a good driver, but others on the highway aren’t! I just want him to stay safe….. 🙁
Also, why can’t I get your video about how to apply eye make-up to make the ‘cat eye?’ Thanks for listening! 🙁
I love my husband but he won’t stop bringing home animals!!! 17 months ago we moved from Orlando FL to Prospect TN…. Population 750. To get to “town” takes 15 minutes… which is a town of about 7,000. SO needless to say life has drastically changed for us. I mean in Orlando I almost NEVER cooked.So we bought a house on 10 acres. We moved with our son and 3 dogs. 2 months later he came home with…. a DONKEY! A month later, 6 chickens. 2 months later… a horse. 3 months after that…. another a horse, the next month, another horse. The next month…a PUPPY. And finally last month, 3 sheep. There is talk of Alpacas, Micro Pigs, Goats, More Sheep, More Horses, more Donkeys….. What I failed to mention is that while he brings them home… he works during the day so I am their care takers! The good thing is that we bond with our pets…. even the 1,000 pound ones and I do love each and every one of them….
In response to your husband’s pickiness…. Have you tried the magic noodles? Taste like pasta, but without the carbs! I adore Mashed Cauliflower (prepared like mashed potatoes), And spaghetti Squash Spaghetti.
Since moving to Tennessee I have learned to cook, can and even make my own cheese.
I love my husband for giving me this wonderful life and sharing it with me.
Girrlll you are THE BOMB!! U r hysterical!!! I wish I had your confidence!! I am a 39 year old single mom. I have been single /divorced for 13 years so NO hubby, but i do have a huuuge 16 yr old son. He is a 6’2 250 lb offensive lineman. He eats EVERYTHING!! I think it would be an AWESOME joke to play on him if i put a vegetarian dinner on the table!! He eats all meat and i think he would either pass out or protest child abuse and neglect! U r beautiful and hysterically funny! Take care!
Nice to know I’m not the only one who dreads coming up with meals. I feel like I cook the same 7 things just in different ways lol.
I love my husband but…. he is so late to EVERYTHING. I should’ve known something was wrong when we went to prom super late missed our dinner, I almost thought he stood me up. Now we are in our 30’s and we arrive at movies when its already started, functions and meals have been served, If its his turn to pick up the kids from the grandparents he’s late. One year he had to take our son to school that year our son had 18 tardies when he used to never be late. Most of the times I’ll tell him a earlier time so we don’t miss everything. We’ve been to invited to weddings and missed the ceremony but made the reception. He has no concept of time and I on the other hand enjoy being on time.
It still drives me crazy but I know to expect it and I just pray for his deliverance from the late demon.
You gotta get him to try making Italian Bean Fontina Soup. (yeah, get him to make it- men can cook, they won’t fall apart lol)
4 cans Cannellini Beans
1 cup of Olive Oil
2 bay leaves
4-8 cloves of garlic, smashed/minced
1-3 tsp Red Pepper Flakes (depending on taste)
1 package Garlic/cheese croutons
Seasoned Salt (to taste)
Drain/rinse beans, put in a large pot, put in 3x more water than beans. Add bay leaves, 2/3 cup olive oil. bring to a boil, turn down to medium high (so it’s still bubbling, but won’t boil over). Half cover with a lid and let it bubble away til half the water is gone. I usually use a potato masher to smush up some of the beans at that point so it’s extra creamy. In another pan on medium high, put in 1/3 cup olive oil, let it heat up, then throw in the garlic and the red pepper flakes. Take it off the heat immediately so it doesn’t burn, swirl it around a few times til the garlic begins to turn slightly golden (yeah, have the fan on for this- aerosolized chili oil is not fun!), then dump it into the pot of beans (it should sizzle like a deep fried turkey). Then throw in your croutons, give it a good stir and turn it down to low for like 10 minutes while you’re setting the table. It’s supposed to be thick and creamy, with a few whole beans and chunks of bread. Give it a good shake of seasoned salt, serve it out and drizzle a little more olive oil on it.
Our daughter is allergic to pretty much everything and she downs this soup like there’s no tomorrow!
Kim, I love my husband but…he got diagnosed with sleep apneia . I meen golly he would snore all night long, So anyhow he would stop breathing like 30 some times a night, or when I put a pillow over his face!. Bahahaha!
My goodness. I wish I had my husband back so I can complain like the rest of you ladies. 🙂 He left me five years ago and eventually divorced me. And unfortunately, I’m still in love with him. I have to deal with this loss every single day. It’s even harder around the holidays. So maybe before you start nit picking about your hubbys, just remember, be thankful you have one.
Kim I feel your pain!!! My husband’s not vegetarian, but he doesnt like pork, vegetables, fruit, and really doesn’t like ANYTHING!!! I was recently diagnosed with CRPS, and now I’m permanently disabled, so cooking like I did before is a challenge. We have 2 boys 11 and 10, and a surprise child lol, almost 3 year old daughter. These kids all have different preferences and all of them love fruits and veggies. So I’ve become like you, irritated by dinner time in general. I’m always trying to find foods that please everyone and still maintain a healthy full course meal. All of them drive me nutty, everything is really a lot of work for me not being able to use my right arm. So I try to cook with my kids, and alone with my husband. This ensures they are excited about the food they eat!!
Xoxo, Good luck!!!