On Friday afternoon I realized that Father’s Day was–um–right around the corner. Henry and I have a tradition of making Matt a card with one of Henry’s footprints. But beyond that, I was clueless. I brainstormed ideas as I drove to pick up Henry from daycare. I thought of just the thing to buy Matt, but then I decided that I didn’t want to set a precedent of buying him a big present for Father’s Day (since it’s already hard enough to come up with good ideas for Christmas and his birthday).

 

So I tabled the present idea and instead decided to have a “sweet treat” theme for

I just love this reflection over at Kelly Rae Roberts about marriage after baby. She says, “Parenthood,
like any other big transition in life (marriage, separation, moves,
etc), throws you into major opportunity to grow into new versions of
yourself and into new versions of partnership and marriage. They aren’t
kidding when they say it’s life changing. I think it’s self changing. Marriage changing. All the changing isn’t easy, but there is wholeness and healing at every turn.”

She goes on to say, “We’re
finding the pieces just don’t fit together the way they used to in the
marriage puzzle, the self puzzle, the community puzzle. The pieces

I apologize for not having a more romantic topic on Valentine’s Day, but according to this NYTimes article, equally distributing household responsibilities is romantic!

Matt and I try to divide our chores evenly. We divide the weekly and monthly chores into two different groups (#1 and #2) and then we alternate who does them each week/month. Then we have chores that are specific to us every week.

Now that we moved into a new house, it’s time to make up new lists to reflect our new environment.

Weekly #1