I’M guessing most of couples out there are like us - you have our own jobs in the house, that you either consciously assigned when deciding to live together, or just fell into cause it’s your natural position in the household.
Mark and I have always had what we like to call ‘pink and blue jobs’. Just in case you need clarification, I’m pink and Mark’s blue.
Most of the jobs were quite obvious and naturally fell to either one of us. I had the majority of the indoor jobs: cooking, cleaning, washing and ironing, I have also adopted the mantel of official card and present buyer - with the exception of presents for Mark’s dad and his best friend Guy, he is always in charge of those.
With it being Guy’s birthday today, and his dad’s tomorrow - gents, please remember this fact as you open your gifts.
Mark’s key blue jobs have always been to be in charge of the garden, DIY, washing the cars and anything remotely technical, inside or out.
However, when you have a baby, the lines become a little more blurred. The clear divide between pink and blue is no more. We often share jobs, and I think in some ways we enjoy swapping colours.
The more clear-cut ‘never going to change as long as we both shall live’ sort of jobs like ironing (pink) and mowing the lawn (blue), have of course remained the same.
But cooking has become Mark’s domain, I will do a lot of the planting in the garden, we both use the hand car wash at The Swinger in Bulwell and we have our lovely cleaning lady, Joy, who comes twice a month for the ‘big clean’.
It’s amazing how one very small person can throw the whole universe out of balance, but I have to say as with all things Erin, it’s been an excellent change! Perhaps having such definitive roles wasn’t the best thing for us, the variation keeps you on your toes!
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