Today's devotional was allll about being irritable with your spouse. Did they write this one JUST for me? Being irritable is pretty bad, I must confess. It never makes anything easier. If I'm stressed about something I'm baking, I'm QUICK to snap at Brian even if he hasn't done a darn thing. I don't mean to, and 95% of the time I say I'm sorry. But it would be a lot easier to just NOT be irritable. It said what we need to do is find the things that cause us to be irritable and stressed and make margins in our life.
Basically, let's say I have cupcakes that have to be ready by 5. If I don't start on them till 3, I haven't given myself much of a margin to mess up or drop a cupcake and have to redo or start over. If I start at 10am and give myself 7 hours, then I'm much less likely to get stressed if I mess something up...which means I'm much less likely to snap at my husband for no good reason.
We had to list areas in which we need wider margins. I would say the main place I need to widen my margins is my baking. I try to bake as close to the time the baked good is due for freshness sake. But I can certainly start a few hours earlier. I've often thought of making 10-2 my work hours, if for no other reason than that way when Brian comes home, it's all about us.
Another area I need to work on is paying bills. For a while I was doing really good about scheduling all of the bills to be paid online at the end of the previous month...like I would sit down at the end of one month to pay bills for the next. The only bills we have to actually pay in person are the electric bill, our Mallette bill, and the rent. The rest I pay online. I've fallen down a little on that job. I need to start giving myself a few more days before the end of the month to get all of this together.
I love my husband more than I could ever express, and it always ends up breaking my heart to think I even MIGHT have hurt his feelings, so I definitely want to work on being less irritable.
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