What does you hubby/partner do at home?

My partner works 5am until about 5pm and travels an hour to and from work as well-sometimes more.
I stay at home and do all the cleaning and washing etc. and don't mind since Carey earns the money for us to live.
I got sick from this pregnancy and was told not to work on the boats and then found it impossible to get another job since no one wanted to hire a pregnant woman. Plus- no maternity leave/pay whatever for me as I was only a trainee.
I don't sleep much at all now. Maybe 2-3 hours a night and I might rest for an hour during the day- AND I'M EXHAUSTED!
I just want a massage for an hour or at least half- but by the time he gets home he's exhausted to...

I'm at home without Andrew 3 days out of 5 at the moment (he is at daycare) so those days I try to do most of the work around the house. Washing, cleaning etc. When I go back to Uni next semester and Andrew is in fulltime daycare we will be going back to spliting the stuff around the house as I will be studying fulltime and I am pregnant now.

As a rule on Friday he must cook dinner as I am at work until 7pm. He also does alot of the DIY stuff at the moment (we are fixing up our new bedroom as Andrew can move into our room and then we can do our new bathroom), so that is alot of work. I do try to help out when he is doing that so that we are both doing up our house. I love mowing the lawns so I do that (its good exercise), however hubby will do them every now and then.

At the moment with 24/7 sickness he has found himself doing a lot more with Andrew and the housework as it doesn't take me long to get bad and have to visit the white porcielin bowl.

He leaves for work at 7.45am and isn't home until 5.15pm so I make dinner most nights. When he gets home he spends that time while i'm making dinner to play trains with Andrew.

Hehe.. I do pretty much all the housework too.. unless I ask it doesn't get done apart from on the occassion..

Does anyone else feel that they are on a losing battle with their house? esp with a toddler who is always moving things from place to place.. I am always apologising to people when they come over but why should I, grr it's frustrating!!

Yes Kat. Within 5 minutes Hannah has completely destroyed any hope of having a tidy house. I give up.

You should see my kitchen table its covered in clean washing ready to be put away but i just can't find the time. Jack has to be held all day and he gets bored with the house. DP won't do anything unless i ask he has his jobs to do but still won't do it unless I ask. He also thinks its my job to clean his cars and motorbikes He is supposed to cook tea while i bath and feed jack but sometimes I have to do that as well.

The few times I have left Jack with him I feed and change Jack so all Ben has to do it play with him until nap time. One time I went out for 30mins and when I came home Jack was in bed because he cried, he had only been up for 45mins poor bubs.

How do u get DP to help out? I have even written out a job list so he knows what to do

Haha that plan is already in place

I am a bit late to get my 2 cents in on this but I will anyway!!

DP is sharemilking and we have had someone working with us for the last few months so I have been working part time (finished now) and going to playcentre etc. But now our worker has left so from the next week or so I will be working on the farm doing calving and milkings.
So our jobs of what we do change depending on the cows... May - July I do the majority of the housework as David is out most of the day doing little jobs around the farm that have been neglected during milking season and I dont do anything during dry season so I am happy with that. July - May we do what we can when we are awake enough!! we both work 7 days a week starting at 5am with 2 1 hour breaks and finish at around 6pm... so needless to say our house is generally a mess in that time!!! He is pretty good around the house. If someone is coming around he will tidy the whole house while I look after Arna...

But then there are other times I wish he would do more but with the work that we do sleep is paramount over a "tidy" house!