I Need A Wife

Cliched but true. I need a wife to get projects initiated, managed and completed properly. For what, you ask? For this:

• interviewing, meeting, selecting and scheduling a reading tutor for my son
• measuring, choosing, ordering, removing and installing the last 5 windows in our house -- replacing the original 1920 ones
• getting the backyard bricks power-washed
• repainting the backyard metal gates
• restoring the soil in the raised beds and covering everything with a new layer of cedar chips
• fixing the miserable landscaping in the front garden
• sorting through the books and toys that the kids have outgrown and donating them
• organizing the books and toys that remain, in a fashion that makes much better use of the existing space in their bedroom
• developing more varied, interesting and tasty lunch menus for both children, yet factoring in the complete lack of refrigeration available
• finding an end table for the couch in the master bedroom
• finding an appropriate chandelier for the dining room -- the one we have now looks like it's a castoff from the Spanish Inquisition

I could go on. So that's why I need a wife.