This is going to sound strange, but I think loosing my car, my job hours, and being forced back into housewifery was to prepare me. Because I have been home most days for the last several weeks, I have been cleaning the house, finishing unfinished projects, and stocking the staples. I can’t say we have EVERYTHING we need, but we are doing okay. I was trying to find the purpose in the isolation already. Now I do believe it IS GOD. He knows me. He knows I hate change. He knows that being home all the time is hard for me. I choose to see the last several months as my adjustment period. God is good. I know all this crisis is not about me. Each of us will have to adjust in our own way. I am just so thankful God knew I needed extra time to prepare. Stay safe everyone.
As a kid I watched my parents fight about different things. I don't really have any other parents to compare them to so I can't really say whether they were normal fights couples have or not. I couldn't even say what most of them were about except the ones that were about me. We only ate as a family on holidays. My father came home late so we kids ate without him. I do remember spending time with him in the evening before I went to bed so it couldn't have been that late. My own husband gets home a little later because of his job commute so we eat late every night. But home schooling has given us the ability to be more flexible than my Mom was able to be. We had school early the next day. As I got older, I remember my Father being home less and less and the fights seemed to intensify. I remember one night when I was thirteen. I could hear them yelling through the wall. My mom found me crying and I told her I didn't want them to get a divorce. She told me...
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