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Which Type of Wife are You?

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

One of the questions I get the most from people who have read the book or from radio hosts who interview me is “how have you changed since going through this experiment?”

It’s a question that I really want to answer but at the same time, this is a question that can be hard to answer because sure, it’s easy for me to be the one to say “Oh, I’ve changed tons, and here is how I’ve changed, and these are the ways I’ve changed…” Now if you were to ask my husband and son, their answers might be a little different. (For the record, I’ve asked my husband this question – a LOT – enough to really make him wish I would stop asking him this question. But it’s an accountability thing for me – it’s a personal temperature check – I don’t ever want to go back to the way things used to be.)

You might find it interesting that the biggest changes for me didn’t come while I was doing the experiment, or even in the middle of writing.

It was afterwards.

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Rainy Days

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

We have had a LOT of rain in Louisiana in recent weeks. (And we’ve had a lot of heat too!) And while I’m very glad for the green grass we’ve actually got right now, (though my FIL may not be, considering he’s mowed twice in a week) it’s put a bit of a damper on summer activities. Like going to the pool or even driving to Baton Rouge to go bowling since you take your life in your hands with rainy Baton Rouge traffic, especially with the storms we’ve had.

Thankfully Caleb has a good friend, Kailyn, who is also his age and grade, and an “only” kid, and they play great together. She came over yesterday while her mom, a teacher, had school stuff to do to get ready for the impending school year.

This is what we found in the living room.

No, do not adjust your computer monitors. Though it may look like a bad version of Hoarders, it’s really a fort they created. (And I find it sadly ironic that those plastic bags in the corner are all school supplies my MIL brought home for them. Fifth grade orientation is on Monday!)

 

 

And before you get all extremely impressed about their creativity and ingenuity and ability to entertain themselves, please note the shiny glowing laptop screen in their kid cave. Yeah, they’re watching videos online. It’s the modern version of the kid fort. Kinda like the treehouse with air-conditioning.

 

And they posted Sammy the dog as the bouncer.

“No more pictures please.”

Guess I’ll go watch the rain.

What do your kids do to stay entertained when it rains? 

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