Archive for May, 2008
May 23rd, 2008 | 
Author: Make today a “speak softly” day. Purpose not to raise your voice or to speak in anger or sarcastically. Let the sound of your voice touching your husband’s ears be like a caress instead of a slap.
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Let your inner child escape. Take your husband to the park and swing on the swings.
Bless your husband today with a retreat to childhood.
Wednesday’s tips are normally centered on specific prayer for our husband. Today’s tip is for specific prayer for ourselves that will ultimately bless our husband’s.
If your husband is like most, his days off from his place of employment are filled with errands and chores. In light of that, make tonight a chore free night for your husband. Happily refrain from asking him to do any normal evening chores. If at all possible, do what he normally does in the evenings during the day so he won’t even feel the slightest guilt.
Fill and 8.5X11 sheet of paper with I love you.
They can be written small, large, medium or a mixture. They can be written in pen, pencil, crayon, colored pencil, or markers. They can be written all in one color or all the colors in the biggest crayon box. They can be written in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Hebrew, Aramaic or any other language you can think of. Just fill up the page.
Invite your husband to go for a walk with you.
I understand that some husbands work evenings, long hours, are over the road drivers, or there are children issues to work out. Don’t give up because of that. Adapt, work around the obstacles or make the “obstacles” part of the fun.
The point is to spend time together. If you don’t work at it or schedule it it won’t happen.
Pray for your husband to work “smart”. Pray for him to be able to prioritize and not be ruled by “the tyranny of the urgent.”
Remind your husband to use one of the coupons you made him last week. Sometimes they forget to redeem them.
Time for executing and maintaining a clean home will be in huge supply once the offspring have established homes of their own. You’d think so wouldn’t you? Ah, but, the reality for this creative individual has disproved that theory. For with the departure of said offspring a very small, full of potential, money saving pursuit (which occupied a very small space in a drawer), quietly began to expand.
In your “I love you” Journal a card or a note, list 5 things that finish this sentence:
I am grateful to your Mom for…