Hey 👋… it’s been quite the rushed weekend for us.

My daughter and her husband are wanting to sell their house on 216 Mckenzie avenue in Steinbach… we are helping them with staging and on Friday after work I rushed down there and started drywalling the basement.

We spent quite a bit of time doing that.. I tried to spearhead the operation, the truth is every person that helped us was incredible. I went as long as I could until it was dark and started to rain… at the point we had to stop the whole process. It was difficult as it was my first time drywalling – I’ve put in flooring and baseboards, hanged doors and done other installs but never drywall, so it was a new experience for me.

By the time we got home around 10:30m, I knew that I was tired… like stick a fork in me, in done tired.. 😂.

On Saturday I got up around noon (its my only day of the week for me to sleep in), and then got busy and went to a wedding… after the wedding, we quickly drove out to Danny’s Whole Hog and picked up a massive amount of meat for the guests. We ripped back to the church and brought in the meat to the people working in the kitchen.

We got back from Winnipeg around 9pm.. we were still so sore from drywalling (we also both work full time) that we could hardly walk… my legs are so sore its ridiculous. My wife crashed and went to bed.

Because we were so busy this weekend, we hadn’t given our house any attention yet… the last thing I wanted to do was anything more but us men need to be the leaders in our homes – and leaders don’t expect others to do things that they wouldn’t do themselves… my wife is exhausted and there is no away I’m going to let all this work fall back on her. I know for a fact, that if I don’t do this now, she will tell herself to do it all, thinking the entire time of negative thoughts, how its bullshit that she has to do this all herself… – every woman has done that.. those dishes hit the dishwasher a little harder than they should (husbands – that is a clue, dummy 😁 ).. Do you know when you get this feeling that you have a choice, you could take the lazy way out and tell yourself that “they” can do it, knowing full well that there is nothing really stopping you other than selfishness – don’t listen to the lazy voice… just my 2 cents.

So, i started with the laundry, cleaned upstairs, brought out all the garbage and recycling, wiped the counters and oven/microwave/sink and swept the floors. Put away the dishes and reloaded the dishwasher. When she walks into the main area tomorrow morning – things will be totally cleaned up and tidy – not the way it was when she went to bed. Screw giving your wife flowers – I mean that’s nice and all, but I think putting yourself in her shoes and doing the shit that nobody really wants to do, is actually meaningful… buying flowers is just a gesture… isn’t she worth more than that? Just let her know a fraction of what she is worth – she needs to know that, and she is never going to tell you that sometimes she really needs that from you, that truth is if you really cared, you would have known it without being told. Instead of just listening with your ears, listening with your heart.

Now I’m going to try to relax… I got Mission Impossible 3 on deck, that is probably my favorite movie franchise.

Have a great Sunday!

Jason