Along with the many other things that have kept me busy since getting married six weeks ago my new wife had to have knee surgery. I haven’t had to go through any surgeries since I was a kid, so sometimes it is hard for me to relate and know what she is going through but I try my best. Since she can’t really be on her feet for a few more weeks I have been playing Mr Mom, and I have had some less than stellar moments. I don’t mind waiting on her at all, but I will admit that I haven’t done the best job at keeping up with the chores around the house. It gives me a new appreciation for women that’s for sure. I don’t necessarily think that house work is a woman’s job, and I have no problems helping out, I just know that I kind of suck at it. Last week I got way behind on laundry, and in the process of trying to get caught up, as well as keep up with every thing else around the house, I left a load of socks in the washing machine for a day or so and they had a little bit of a funky smell to them. I had to wash them again, but in the mean time I had to go to Walmart to buy some groceries, so in typical guy fashion I bought new socks so I wouldn’t have to worry about the funky socks until I got around to re-washing them. The weekend came and it was time to get out of the house for a little while and my dear sweet wife ask me if she had any clean socks. I hadn’t gotten around to re-washing the socks yet, but I told her not to worry as I had brand new socks in my drawer and I would be happy to loan her a pair. That seemed like the perfect solution until I opened the drawer and realized there was only one brand new sock in there. I laughed when I explained that there was only one new sock and told her that was one of the draw backs of marrying an amputee. We just don’t go through socks two at a time like everyone else. We both got a good laugh out of it.

I am trying to make a little more time to blog even though things have not calmed down around here much. I have a couple other little stories about the last couple of weeks, but I have to go take the clothes out of the dryer now, so they will have to wait.