Or do I mean houseperson?
I haven’t started many posts lately, so here’s an update. I’m now semi-retired and spend maybe 3-4 hours a day at my office – which gives me time otherwise to be me! My wife has a pretty much full-time job that is fairly stressful. (Yes, Claire is part of her life.) I generally spend my mornings around the house in “comfy”
clothes, and more and more am taking over the household duties. We’ve had several posts about dressing and doing housework, but I’m finding that the more I dress, the more I want to do housework. Keeping fresh flowers on the dinner table, tidying and cleaning .. in fact, I love it! This is very different from drab mode, when I found such things a chore.
So, two questions. One, do any of you find the same? The second question is this. Perhaps this is just another expression of my femininity, but I wonder if this is some sort of gender stereotype … am I being sexist? I’d be particularly interested in how GG’s see this.
Yesterday I went to our favorite consignment store (
Kaleidoscope)
to get some around the house clothes – scored a couple of tops, a pair of Chico’s jeans and some cute blue sandals for $35 – and had another first. I passed a couple in the store, and the guy winked at me! I confess that brought a smile. I don’t know if he read me or thought I was cute or what, but I liked it.
So here’s my new housecleaning outfit and yes, the place is cleaner!