I may be hitting the "adjustment suuucks" stumbling block, even though I had hoped the honeymoon period would last longer than 3 weeks. DH made dinner tonight while I skyped with the grandparents with DD for TWO hours (exhausting). When I got off the computer, I found out DH had used dried thyme instead of the fresh thyme I ran to several market stalls yesterday to find and went to great lenghts to make myself understood when vendor after vendor didn't understand my pronunciation of the one-syllable THYM (tom? tim? tam? I couldn't get it right). Despite the fact that I told DH this story last night over dinner, he had zero recollection of my market adventure with fresh thyme yesterday.
So I cried. Then I ate the extraordinary dinner he made. Sigh. I'm just tired, right?
Re: This is normal, right?
We live in my home country and I have a constant battle to remind DH to use the fresh spices I've bought vs. the dried.
Totally normal!
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You're totally normal :-)
And I think thyme in French is pronounced kinda similar to 'team'
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<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DOh heck. We live in DH's home country and I have to remind him of this! And we've been back here for over 18 months!
I don't know that I'd write it off to "adjustment to a foreign land". My H would have said "I didn't know you wanted to use the fresh thyme for this recipe" pfft.
Totally normal.
Sweet of your H to make dinner - I'm sure he will never forget to use the fresh herbs again!
It's kind of pronounced like "tin" in Tin Tin.