This is me.......I do the follwoing on a daily basis, and, to make it better, I feel guilty when I don't:

• Work - 9 hours a day starting at 5:00, 4:15 if you count the time I get up.
• Wake up Jason at 7:30.
• Pick-up Isaac from Cleone's, make him a snack.
• Greet Clarice from school make her a snack, than make her start her homework.
• Load the dishwasher, clean kitchen, and straighten up the house from that morning, make sure Clarice is still doing her home work.
• Work-out for an hour.
• Make dinner and serve. NOTE: You can't have the same thing more than two days in a row, I was in trouble for that one.
• Clean up after dinner.
• Do a load of laundry, fold or put in appropreiate pile.
• Bathe the kids and try and get their clothes ready for the next day.
• Take a bathe, but only after I get grief for it. Wonder if I should shave my legs or if I will get grief for that too.
• Put the kids to bed.
• Get my clothes ready for the next day.
• Straighten the house again from the five hours of use, and make coffee for the next day.

****Please note that kids never ask dad for ANYTHING, always me. I am considered the 'mean parent', probably becuse I am the only parent that makes them do anything.

****Please also note I do the following but not on a daily basis:

• Pay the bills - this includes the worries that come with them.
• Buy the groceries - make monthly menues.
• Take the kids to ALL doctors/dentist appointments with no exceptions, 3 kids equal a lot of appointments.
• Run errands.
• Plan brithday parties for kids including all the gifts, Easter, Christmas, immediate family gifts.
• Water plants.

Don't get me wrong, I watch my share of TV, ie Law and Order, but I feel that I deserve this as a treat.

Things that Jason does:

• Get kids ready
• Work 8-9 hours
• Come home and ask Clarice is she has finished her homework. My personal favorite, becuase he knows that I have made her do it for the last hour and a half.
• Mop floor in the kitchen every other week.
• Feed the dogs.
• Walk the trash to the curb once a week.
• Work in the yard, weather permitting, nothing in the winter, sometimes shovel.
• Go to Wendover at least once a month, ask why there isn't more money in the checking.
• Read a gardening book.
• Go camping once a month with the scouts, I usually pack for this one, and buy his food.

Am I bitching, well of course I'm bitching! The reasoning behind this is because I am very low maintainance, I don't require much, hell my shampoo costs $1.88. We never go out on dates, I don't ask to get my hair colored (I do it myself), my haircuts cost $15, I don't go clothes shopping (90% of my clothes are hand me downs), I don't have a closet full of shoes (I really only wear about three different pairs), I don't have friends that I go out with, and I make my own jewelry. I don't ask much, but when I do I feel guilty doing so, and why is that, I will tell you why. I need help for the race (Triathlon) I am doing in June (supplies, ie wet suits, bike, gear I need to wear, money for the trip to Denver), I asked for help (because we have seperate checking accounts) and I was told that I could really do this on my own, it shouldn't be a problem. So, I guess I will be going to the triathlon alone as well. I almost burst out crying (I waited until my 10 minute bath and cried a little there), but I didn't in front of anyone, I was strong, as I was always taught to be.