I have been reading The Excellent Wife. I am about half way through and I started to think to myself, she sure is heavy on the submission issue. I wonder if the author is going to cover any other topic. I really don't have a problem with submission-just my personality. I would rather defer to hubby than to make a decision. OK so God decided to test me on this. You just knew that was coming didn't you.
It was an emotional PMS day and a busy day with the kids and a husband who throws a doozy at me and wants input immediately. He calls me as I was trying to check out of the library with the kids and their large pile of books. His boss wants us to have her cabin at Lake Tahoe for free next week (which meant leave in four days). Hubby wants to take a week off of work, spend a couple hundred dollars on gas, and rearrange everyone's schedule at church (we have to cover all of our responsibilities while we are gone) so we can spend a week on vacation. I have been stressing over the economy lately to say the least. Now he wants to use savings to go on vacation. He was excited about it so because of what I had been reading, I knew I had to say "Let's go." He is a smart man so the tear stained face that night told him that I wasn't excited about the trip. I could honestly tell him I wasn't excited about anything though. Those hormones were a bear this month!
So I spend the next few days making arrangements and we are off for a week to Lake Tahoe. We haven't had a family vacation for 6 years so it has been a while since we had that much time to play together. It was great to have help with dishes and bedtime and to see hubby spend time with the kids. They have really missed him this year while he was so busy with school. Actually I learned some things too. Like I need to not be so miserly with our money. It is OK to spend money once in a while. That is what God gives it to us for. Thank you God for reminding me about submission at the right time. You had something to teach me and I never would have learned it if I had put my foot down and said we weren't going on vacation.
It was an emotional PMS day and a busy day with the kids and a husband who throws a doozy at me and wants input immediately. He calls me as I was trying to check out of the library with the kids and their large pile of books. His boss wants us to have her cabin at Lake Tahoe for free next week (which meant leave in four days). Hubby wants to take a week off of work, spend a couple hundred dollars on gas, and rearrange everyone's schedule at church (we have to cover all of our responsibilities while we are gone) so we can spend a week on vacation. I have been stressing over the economy lately to say the least. Now he wants to use savings to go on vacation. He was excited about it so because of what I had been reading, I knew I had to say "Let's go." He is a smart man so the tear stained face that night told him that I wasn't excited about the trip. I could honestly tell him I wasn't excited about anything though. Those hormones were a bear this month!
So I spend the next few days making arrangements and we are off for a week to Lake Tahoe. We haven't had a family vacation for 6 years so it has been a while since we had that much time to play together. It was great to have help with dishes and bedtime and to see hubby spend time with the kids. They have really missed him this year while he was so busy with school. Actually I learned some things too. Like I need to not be so miserly with our money. It is OK to spend money once in a while. That is what God gives it to us for. Thank you God for reminding me about submission at the right time. You had something to teach me and I never would have learned it if I had put my foot down and said we weren't going on vacation.
How could I have thought about denying these guys the opportunity to run around and experience a week in God's beautiful mountains?
2 comments:
Yea for vacation!
We just got home from a week at family camp -- our vacation for the summer. It was a great time. Glad to hear you guys also had a few days of refreshment.
When God teaches you lesson through the refreshment, it's all the better.
Just saw your post over on "Life in the Parsonage". Another working pastor....And here I thought we were the last of the breed!!! Love the "dirty" pictures. I call the look "well-played" Kind of like the "lived-in" look for the house. Picture perfect is just not REAL!!!
Keep laughing.
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