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?