A Clean Room

Robert, Here are the responses to the first 4 questions: 1. How clean is his room? No, you did just fine in cleaning up after yourself this last visit. You are a very neat person and I like this. I don't want to have a messy house either and I think that if we both agree on this, our home will stay in good condition. I also believe that we will be a good example for our children and they will also clean up after themselves. I expect kids to be messy, but I think that if they are used to a clean environment, they will pick up after themselves by force of habit. I understand your not wanting to throw things away in the middle of the quarter. I am the same way. However, everything gets put into the top two drawers of my desk. I usually clean my desk several times over the course of the quarter, but I clean it thoroghly at the end (this past break I waited until the beginning of Summer and I felt very stressed because I was fully cleaned out the first day of class). 2. Babysit with him to see how he is with kids. Robert, I already love your attitude towards children. We don't need to go babysitting to prove this. However, it might be a good reprieve for your brother and I think we would have fun. Robert, you want to have a family and that is what matters most. We have talked constantly about our children doing this or not doing that, and I believe that you and I together will make great parents. The most important thing here is that we talk about and agree on how to raise our kids. After listening to you I believe that we agree on most (if not all) ways of raising our children. We agree on discipline. We agree that our house should also be their home. I love you. We will do just fine and be great parents together. 3. What does he expect to do (work wise) in 5, 10, 20 years? Robert, I will support you no matter what you do. If you wanted to be an underwater fireman I would be a little worried about your common sense, but I would support you. I want you to be happy. I don't want this to sound as if I don't care what you do. I do care, but I want you to enjoy what you do. I am not going to push you into being something you're not. When career opportunities come up (for you or me) I hope that we discuss our options together. Ultimately it will be your decision, you will be the patriarch. While we don't have a family I would be glad to help out with the living costs. That way we can get out of debt before we have children. This will hopefully happen by the time I graduate. After we start our family I want to do everything humanly possible to stay in the home. Robert, I want to make our house a home. Even before we have children. There are many options to staying in the home. There are jobs that I could do if the money side of our family needs picking up. Sometimes, though, it is not "humanly" possible to stay at home. I hope that I never have to do this, mainly because it would probably mean that you are not here. I love you. Together we will make ends meet. We will be happy together no matter what our income is. 4. What does he think about schooling? I don't have much time to answer this one. I have to go to work. I feel pretty much the same way you do about education. I am not saying this as a cop out either. I want to continue with school until I get my Bachelor's. This I would like to do full time. I would eventually like to go on to get my Master's (I recently found out that my income, if I were earning on my own, would tripple, along with my possibilities). However, I want our family to come first, or along with it. I can go to school part time (taking a class or two here and there) to get my masters. That was the end of the questions and I am going to be late for work if I don't leave now. I love you, Eternally yours, Wanda PS. The weaker sex is the stronger sex because of the weakness the stronger sex has for the weaker sex. See, you ARE trained!! (joke)