Peanutter started a thread on a similar thing a while ago... Got a whole raft of responses...
Have you discussed it with him? I have found I need to be really explicit with DH when he is home with the kids as he thinks it is enough that the kids are looked after, anything else is just a bonus... Which I don't agree with at all.
Good luck hun, having just returned to work I'm struggling to keep on top of things too...
No-one wants to come home to a pigsty and have to sort it all out. Can you let him know what worked for you? It's really hard when you first start being responsible for all this stuff and it's hard to tell whether he's just being totally slack or whether he just hasn't found his groove yet.
Maybe work out what are your priorities. Mine would be a decent meal. I know if I leave DP responsible for dinner, he ends up in a complete funk. He's a great cook but HOPELESS planner. So I'm slowly but surely having to teach him to keep it simple while the girls are little. Meat and two veg is far better than aiming for some fancy French meal that won't be on the table till 8pm. Maybe sit down with him and plan some meals so he doesn't have to think, just cook.
Loading the dishwasher - I think you just have to put your foot down on that one. It's as easy to load them in there as it is to pile them in the sink.
Washing - hmmm, can you get a laundry organiser trolley thingy so that at least the clean washing sits in that until it gets put away?
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