Organizing Update and More Thoughts about Discipline

This week the organizing job was the office area.  I’ve got two days left, and I just started Thursday.  I told my husband who is aware of my organizing that I will probably do the office for next week since I’ve gotten a late start.  He said to me that it’s not too late for this week to finish the office area.  That encouraged me, so I’m going to give it more energy Friday and Saturday.

I’ve been thinking about those three disciplines that I posted in last entry.  I am aware that three weeks is a good amount of time to have a discipline until it is pretty sure built in.  It’s just kind of on average that three weeks that has been known as a good length of time to build new habits.  Three weeks from yesterday our second baby is due.  This is a very exciting time in our lives, and I am so excited to have another child.  There will be changes and adjustments needed to be made, and I just feel that the three disciplines are imminently important for me to develop.

The three habits are less time on facebook, getting to bed early, and if necessary starting dinner early.  Things might not happen as I plan… the baby may come earlier or later than the due date, but I think very much so that it is so vital these habits.  I’m going to be busier with two children and all the more important to be dedicated to my family.

Organizing Update and Thoughts about Discipline

I asked my husband what area of the house he preferred I choose to organize next.  I was either going to organize the nursery or the office area next.  He preferred I organize the office area next, so that is what I chose.  Yesterday, I was supposed to have finished organizing the master bedroom.  I did get a lot done last week on it.  I have more to go, but it shouldn’t take that long just the shelf in the closet about the hangers, and I’m waiting on my husband to help me move the furniture in there ‘cause he wants to fix something with the carpet.

I was thinking recently about one of the ideas I had that would help us wives prioritize our men more, and that is the idea about discipline.  I could do so much more good to my husband if discipline and routine with that discipline were VERY consistent habits.  Self-control is something that helps so much discipline and routine.  Something about self-control is that it hurts.  Just wondering, have you ever wanted to eat something unhealthy for you, and you chose not to because you knew you shouldn’t?  That “no” I have told myself is really disciplining to my flesh, and it hurts just a little, then it has been easier to say “no” next time my flesh says “please?”

I’m listing below examples in my home of things that I know that I need to say no to.  I know that if I had self-control to say no to these things, I’d have a huge amount of time that could be used to doing good to my husband rather than with these things.

Say no to:

1.      Lots of time on Facebook

2.      Staying up late (this way I can get all sleep I know is good for me)

3.      Not prioritizing dinner (saying no to things that keep me from starting dinner early afternoon if necessary)

If there are any Bible verses that come to your mind after you have read this entry, please tell me!  I need and appreciate encouragement, and you just might encourage another follower to the blog.

I do not know of more than two consistent followers to my blog, but if you are following my blog and are inspired by the passion I have to strive to be the best I can be in my job in this world that is doing the best I can to my husband, please comment below.  Don’t be afraid to be a wife striving to be her best for her man and please put out your words of encouragement.  I would like to meet you.   I wanted to blog one last thing quickly for this entry that my husband and I have recently had a wonderful communication, understanding each other.  I like blogging and encouraging wives, but I think the greatest encouragement a wife or husband can get is the encouragement from each other.  So while you may choose to continue following my blog, I want you to not replace the sweet fellowship and encouragement or potential for it you have with your husbands, with my blog.

A Couple Ideas

So I said I’d work on greeting my husband joyfully since I published the last entry and would write about it.  I have greeted my husband fairly peacefully this last week, just being aware that he probably wants to rest.  (I would want to rest coming home from a whole day out.)  

For organizing, I would have been done last Tuesday with the kitchen (since I was making my weeks for organizing go Wednesdays to Tuesdays); however, I switched to Mondays to Saturdays.  So the kitchen organizing ended last Saturday, and I began organizing the master bedroom on Monday.  It’s Thursday night now, and I’m about halfway on it.

All right, I’ve got two ideas that should help me with setting my husband as priority when he arrives home from work and then as well as throughout the day when he’s got a day off or not.  Idea one is to always be living in a state of decision that I will verbally accept his answer he gives to a request I make, whatever the answer or the request is.  If it’s a request to fix something, I should respond with understanding and quietness, knowing that if it’s an immediate “not right now,” it may be ‘cause he’s tired or needing to prioritize something else before tackling the request.  If it’s an idea for the family, he would need time maybe to think it over, and I should quietly understand that.

 Idea two is discipline and routine.  They go hand in hand, I think.  Routine seems to need to include discipline to last, and several disciplines seem to be made possible with routine.  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and this morning, I have woken up fairly early, at least before 7:00, I know on all those days.  There is a blog entry from another site that I read this week, and it really encouraged me what the mother who started the blog had to say.  What stood out to me was how she was saying for quite some time (several years), her children would be how she woke up.  She added hours to her day by early rising.  Here’s the website address for that for you to copy and paste to search for your interest to read - http://thehumbledhomemaker.com/2014/07/adding-two-extra-hours-to-my-day.html - but for now, I’ve mentioned it ‘cause I think that early rising is an excellent idea for discipline.   

This is enough for now.  Until next post, I’m finishing organizing the master bedroom and will either organize the nursery or office area next.  I also plan to work on early rising and perhaps another form of discipline will come to mind that I will adopt, too. 

Did you work on greeting your husband joyfully since last entry?  How did that go, and what are your ideas for that?