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Jan. 8, 2006
Hmm Sunday Sunday
So I thought I'd write for a minute since Katie made me laugh. Fake it til ya make it. I need more faking and more making.
Well things were better this weekend. Now admittedly there were many many times that I was unsubmissive and disrespectful to Clay but thanks to the Lord I started to notice them. So each time I had attitude or talked disrespectfully to him not a minute would pass before I was apologizing to him. I was at first thinking that it was kind of annoying lol. I think if it were Clay doing it I might grow annoyed, especially since I found myself apologizing every 10 minutes. Then today I told him I was sorry for talking disrespectfully to him and he really shone as he told me thank you for apologizing. Thank Jesus that I have a sweet husband that forgives me so freely and quickly. I wish I could offer him that kind of grace so easily. I hope that I continue to let the Lord point these things out to me and that they begin to become beyond ugly to me.
So Clay had me order the Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover starter set. I didn't want to buy it unless we both commited to reading and watching it all ( um... well that sounds bad. And I suppose in reality that was kind of degrading to Clay to assume that he wasn't going to watch it. ) And he gave me an emphatic I will absolutely do it with you - I want you to buy the starter set instead of just the book. Yay! So I started reading the book. I am loving it. I think I was nagging just a tad today about him watching one of the dvds with me. But being sweet he went along with my impatience (he usually says no way when I act that way. Thank the Lord I have a strong husband who doesn't give into em) and we started watching the Cash Flow/budget dvd. We only got to watch about 15-20 minutes because my mother decided she would get the big children up from their quiet time to give them a snack. Oy, living with parents. But when we turned it off, Clay was so excited and said he was really enjoying it and wanted to watch the rest after the children went to bed. God is so good. I am feeling so hopeful that we will start turning things around and make a plan to get Clay's school done, get out of debt and get ourselves back to our home in beautiful TN. More than all of that, I have always hated that Clay works so so hard in such hard labor jobs just to be struggling and behind all the time. For all his hard work I want to see our family thrive financially, to be getting ahead. To help him feel proud of the way his work if providing for his family.
I think I put off posting this last number of days since my eating and exercise plan went ary before lunch. So I am starting anew. Mom made all this good food for the week so it will be easy to eat some healthy food. She made a big pot of split pea soup, some great beef stew, some chicken boussin, some great London Broil and... Homemade sloppy joes lol. So if I can actually get to bed and get up at a reasonable time it will be great. And try to eat breakfast. I have been not eating breakfast and I feel it a mistake. I hope to go to Winco and get a 25lb bag of juicing carrots since that is my favorite breakfast. Clay encouraged me this weekend to start exercising this week if even for 15 minutes. I am so an all or nothing gal. It is a huge flaw of mine that I need to work on. If I blow it by eating a bowl of ice cream I binge the rest of the day. Even to the point that if things are not great in my spiritual life all feels worthless, and I put all things of God to the wayside. This needs to end. Flylady says something about even a small bit of cleaning blesses your family. I need to start doing baby steps.
So.. instead of coming up with grand plans of all the things I will eat and do. My only plan is to do a small baby step. Even if it is just one. Though I hope to do something small in each of the areas that I am struggling in. What do they say, you can't change what you can't acknowledge? So here are the parts that seem out of control and a small baby steps I can try tomorrow.
The house - put away sorted laundry piles
the children - have a child help with each meal
my eating - eat breakfast
health - drink one bottle of water
exercise - do 15 minutes of Pilates
school - have Frankie do copywork and review our lapbook
my marriage - make Clay a lunch to take to work with Bible verse taped on (he loves that)
my relationship with the Lord - Read Bible in bathroom times instead of scrapbook magazines ( LOL)
my computer time - 15 minutes only allowed in morning to check email
keeping track of my digiscrapping "work" deadlines - print out calendar page, write all Elements Team deadlines on calendar
My mood in general - put good music on while I do one of my pick up sessions in the house
Okay while that seems like a lot for me to do for some reason, it is a little in each area. Honestly I can probably do all those things in an hour.
Also, my add making a great special breakfast for Clay on the weekends. He had steak, eggs and toast today and the man who eats little had two whole plates! He was so happy and smiley about his good hearty breakfast. If you are not making something special for your hubby for breakfast when he is home I encourage you to do it. I used to do it every weekend and somehow slacked. He felt like the king of his family this morning :)
As he should.
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Jan. 10, 2006 - I'm Staying, I'm going to continue Blogging!
Blessings,
Tam