Here is our first featured article of 2010: It can be found permanently here at our Pleasing Men page.

By the way, we Stepford ladies are always delighted when our husbands buy us accessories to serve them better. We thought about the type of serving tray we would like to use, and of course, we all agreed on our own Connecticut Robert Wallace’s Royal English Small Square Tray. Now here is a delightful little gift idea you can suggest to him the next time he asks you what you would like:

How To Welcome Your Husband At The End of His Workday
We ladies at Stepford are proud to present our step-by-step list on creating a warm, gracious reception to our men when they return home from the office at the end of their workday.

The following is a sensible order from 15 minutes before he enters the front door to a relaxing after-dinner glow by the fireside.
Of course, this list is subjected to change, according to his mood of the day. After all, we are flexible and can always change our schedule to accomodate the day he is having. Remember our motto here at Stepfordwife.com: To serve man is not a cookbook, It’s a Pleasure!

Preparation to greet him ( 4:30 – 5:30pm )

• 4:30pm Last minute check to see that dinner is in order
• 4:45pm – 5:15pm Refresh your makeup, go over your hair and make sure your dress is crisp.
• 5:15pm – 5:30pm Prepare his favorite refreshing cold drink or cocktail and make sure it’s ready to go on a small serving tray

Honey, I’m Home! ( 5:30 – 5:40pm )

• 5:30 – 5:35pm Put on your biggest smile and greet him at the door with a hug, an appreciative peck on the cheek and a warm "welcome home darling!"
• 5:35 pm Help him take his coat off, and hand him his drink. Hang up his coat while he sits down in the foyer with his drink
• 5:35 – 5:40 Bend down and untie his shoes while he has his drink. Get his nearby slippers, put them on, then put the shoes away. Ask him how his day was. (if the question is met with a grunt, don’t push further, just cheerily say, "well, I’m glad you are home now!"
• 5:40pm Bring the remainder of his drink on serving tray and accompany him to the living room where he sits down. Make sure his drink is topped off before going off to the kitchen.

Dinner ( 5:41 – 7:00pm )

• 5:41pm – 6:00 pm Make sure dinner is set up nicely on the table and everything is in order. Remember to go back and check on his drink!
• 6:00 pm – 6:45pm Dinner is served. Remind him he can eat first as you run around to serve, refill, and maintain dinner service. If you fall behind on your own dinner, either snack later or skip a meal. It will do wonders for your waist!
• 6:45pm – 7:00pm Accompany him back to the living room and asks if there is anything else you can get him.
• 7:00pm – ? If he appears to want peace, give him space and quietly let him know you will be in the kitchen if he needs you. If he seems like he wants to talk, sit down and listen. Don’t give your opinion unless he asks you what you think. Just listen. If he is getting frisky and in the mood, by all means, give your best performance. Never mind what kind of day you had!

 

Stepford Cardinal Rules::

• Don’t complain about the day you have had. If he asks you about your day and you had a bad one, just say "It is much better thank heavens now that you are here!"
• Don’t list the problems that you need him to take care of until after dinner.
• Don’t push for details about his day. Keep it short and sweet. A man needs silence and peace in his home after a day’s work. We are meant to be seen, not heard!
• Make minimum fuss, especially if he seems short.
• Never ask why he is acting the way he is acting.
• If he wants you to be a listener and asks you to sit. Stop what you are doing and sit down immediately. Whatever you were doing can wait.
• Always keep your ears on alert the moment you leave the room. Keep your ears tune for your name to be called, a finger snapped, or a sign that he needs you to get or do something for him.

Here is a test we have created that we hope you will have fun taking.

click on image above to take my Quizilla Test: Are You A Stepford Wife?

Don't Forget To Perform Your Patriot Duty, VOTE!

Ladies, remember to put on your best outift and get down to the voting stations to do your partriot duty.

All Stepford wives should be active in the community.

And if the public question on who to be voted on confuses you, remember to ask.  Start with your elected man of the house!

Now here at Stepford Wives Organization, we ladies love the AMC TV Series Mad Men.    While we may not adore it the way we adore the Donna Reed Show, we do watch it religiously.  We swoon when Betty Draper says “whatever you think is best” to the head of her household when it comes to making a decision.  And not to mention those gorgeous 50′s outfits.  It’s to die for!

In the opening season, there was a clever reference to our beloved manifesto, the “How to Be A Good Wife” guide, an urban legend spread first through faxes in the eighties, then emails in the 90s.  When Peggy Olson goes to visit the gynecologist, she is seen seating on the inspection table reading a pamphlet entitled “It’s Your Wedding Night: What a Every Bride Should Know. How To Be A Good Wife.” Of course, the women at Stepford Wives don’t think it’s all that funny. I mean, the atrocious grammar is positively shameful! “What a Every Bride Should Know?”

The reference could also be a nod towards yet another urban legend: the article that purportedly hailed from “The Madison Institute” in 1894 entitled “INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE.”

Whatever it may be, we still blushed a little that our hard work at our Stepford Organization has finally paid off and we are receiving some recognition on tv.

The Fox News interview of Sarah Palin post VP election with Greta Van Susteren is an extremely telling reflection of the supposed enlightened American public at large.  Even though us ladies at the Stepford Wives Bridge Club have cheered Sarah all along in her quest for the Vice President slot in our United States of America, we couldn’t help but notice a latent chauvinism surfacing from the “male-feminists” who sometimes pretend to know better.

At The Stepford Wives Organization, we may leave the tough decisions up to our husbands, but that doesn’t mean we are in the dark about issues.  Camille Paglia wrote a wonderful article on our Sarah, and guys who purport to be the ever sensitive and political correct male should have a glance at it.

I could almost feel the relish and satisfaction of some of the thinly disguised egalitarian males (and females) when they see their arch-enemy back in the kitchen preparing food for her children (is that even a punishment?  Stepford Wives say NAY!).

We girls do believe that people should have their say.  We support people whose opinions don’t mesh with ours.  Critics may make fun of our 1950s view on life and women’s place in the home.  But make no mistake: a person’s right to speak and voice her or his opinions is a wonderful thing we admire and wish we possessed.

Sarah Palin will go down in the history books as having exposed the double-standards of the “feminists liberators.”

The moment the freed individual voices a perspective these supposed liberators disagree with, then that individual needs to “go back into the kitchen and take care of the kids.”

Well, so be it.  Come back to the kitchen and join us Sarah!  We love you and we don’t care what your critics say:  we know you can do it, and you have inspired us all here at Stepford by showing us you have the take-charge, can-do spirit!