OT - Love my Lovely Hubby

There aren't a lot of times when I'm really over the moon for my husband nowadays, but I just had a really huge moment. Excuse the long post.

My husband and I have been painting his parents' new house for the past week. We go over there every day while my mother-in-law watches our son. Now, I'm pretty lax on what she does when she's with my son, because I think it's good for him to get different experiences, but I do have some ground rules that EVERYBODY follows with him. One is that he only gets 2 oz. of juice a day, mixed with water. If he drinks it, he just gets water for the rest of the day. The second is, he gets no sweets yet (ice cream, soda, etc) because I don't want him getting a taste for it and not wanting anything else. Okay, those are my rules regarding him. Pretty easy. Mostly just to do with what he eats or drinks, because I want him to be healthy.

The second leg of this is the fact that my husband does the dishes and takes out the laundry. Those are the ONLY house chores I make him do, because I feel like he should do something around here. My mother-in-law, father-in-law, mother, and everyone else knows this, because it's a big deal around here. It's the only thing he does, so I make sure he does them. Sorry if that sounds b*tchy, but come on, I do everything else.

Okay, so here's why I love my hubby today: We got home from painting and the dishes that were in the sink had been done, the trash had been taken out, my son was all sticky from Mountain Dew, and a bottle of juice I just bought was half-empty. :explode: :explode: :explode:

My hubby knows that I won't say anything to my mother-in-law because I really do like her, and don't want to end up on Dr. Phil or something, so what does he do? He rationally explains to her that HE is supposed to do the dishes and take out the trash, and our son is NOT supposed to have soda or too much juice, and we aren't painting her house anymore and letting her watch the baby if this is how it's going to end up.

She kept trying to rationalize and say, "Well, I know you're busy and don't always have time to do the dishes, or take out the trash...What's wrong with a little soda and juice? He wanted it." And he just kept explaining to her that it's his job, the baby's health is important to us, don't do that again, or we won't let you watch him by yourself anymore.

I just stood in the background and felt my heart beating so fast I thought I was going to die, I was SO happy. And in the end, SHE apologized to ME. Wooo!

Sorry for the long post, I was just really really really happy my hubby stood up for me. He doesn't do that very often.