Why I have been SILENT

A couple of months ago, I decided to make a pact with myself about blogging. Remember my post on how I'm an awful sinner and a terrible wife?? Well, I decided to work on that. I asked God to give me a pure heart when it came to serving my husband. One of the things I felt called to do was to put my husband (and thus household) first in everything I do. I was frequently guilty of doing what I wanted to do all day long and I put things I hated to do (laundry, dusting, etc) off as long as humanly possible.

Well, that wasn't working for our family anymore. (Sidenote: It was never all good with The Husband.. he strongly disliked it)  I no longer have the leisure of doing laundry at midnight if I choose. Some little angel wants to go to bed about 9 o'clock every night and since I'm his human pacifier, I get to go to bed too.

Anyhow, God pulled on my heartstrings and answered my prayers about becoming a better wife and mommy. In the meantime though, I chose to give up blogging (and pretty much every other fun thing I ever have done) until I could get my house in order and get my spirit right. THREE MONTHS LATER, God is laughing and I have realized that one of these things is an impossible goal. My house, so long as I ever live in this particular one, will NEVER be in perfect order and all clean and straightened at one time.

Recently, my husband posed the question: Why can't every room of our house ever be clean and straight at the SAME time? Thankfully, for him, he did not pose it in a derogatory way (or I would have offered to cut out his eyeballs so he would never have to see the clutter again)! About the same time, we measured our house's square feet for insurance purposes. Before I go on, I must make a public decry:

OUR HOUSE IS NOT 650 SQ. FT. as I have often touted. Because of the addition and the laundry room, it is 734. So, I stand corrected. Sorry.

Back to the husband's question.. It is really a multitude of reasons. So I have developed this handy dandy flow chart in order to solve every husband's wondering of this same question:

So, I realized something important through all of this. I need to put my husband first, but I still have to take care of me. So, now that my heart is in the right place and I'm actually feeling good when I serve my family and want nothing in return, I feel good about resuming blogging. Here we go again... WEEEEE!

P.S. Lest you think I've forgotten, I'm still a horrible sinner. The difference is, since I'm a Christian I gotta WERK (Cover Girl!) on all the things I'm doing that are sinning..