Those of you who have met Isabella know she is not your typical little girl. She is now 4 years old (just turned) and thinks she is twenty.. She surprises us everyday with her “talents” (for her age)… One of the most surprising things she does is that she loves to cook, it started with her play kitchen but now has moved in to our own.

She is very agile and climbs our kitchen cabinets with ease.. She has figured out how to make breakfast for everyone and when she wakes up goes straight to the kitchen to make it.. She knows what everyone likes.. Marco likes a glass of milk with chocolate and cupcakes..She takes the mug from the cabinet, gets the milk out of the refrigerator, pours the milk, opens the microwave heats up the milk, pulls out the “cola cao’ from the cabinet, gets a spoon and stirs it, gets the cupcakes and plate and a napkin and hands it over to Marco.. She does the same routine with my coffee (heats up milk and puts the coffee powder) and with cereal and so on… and doesn’t leave any kind of mess.. (the dishes are left for me although, she has on occasion washed a couple of them)

Now when I wake up in the morning my breakfast is ready.. I’m starting to teach her to iron see how that goes.. (just Kidding!!!!).

No offense to any men out there who do housework and no offense to those who don’t..I just need to talk about it..My girlfriends and I, in our husband comparison (yes, we do that! we compare everything..hahaha jk) find that there are several similarities that they all share when it comes to doing housework.

We first find that when a man does decide to help around the house they usually do it in a sort of half way..For instance if they do laundry this consist of putting clothes in the washer (a mixture of color and fabric) and hit the ON button, sometimes without even putting the detergent in and lets not even mention the clothes softener.. They then take the clothes out and place them in the dryer, again, not sorting or removing any items that should no go in the dryer and press the ON button.Yes, forget about the softner sheets..and voila the laundry is done!! This is the same with the dishes..Dirty dishes, they go in the dishwasher, no need to rinse them or organize them properly just in you go and hit the ON button..(again, we are not sure if there is dishwasher detergent added).How about making the bed? I don’t think they even realize that they have to make a bed, I mean its just going to be un made again at night..why bother??

So..is it worth it for our husbands to help us with the housework or is it better to do it ourselves, knowing we will have to only do it once…Let me know..

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