Pro. 31 Challenge ~ Week 5

Week 5:  Proverbs 31:22-24

²² She makes coverings for her bed;
   she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
²³ Her husband is respected at the city gate,
   where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them,
   and supplies the merchants with sashes


  Are you or a family member always hunting for a clean pair of socks?  Does the laundry seem to be getting the best of you?  Maybe you are always behind on doing the dishes.  Write a post sharing  how you deal with the never ending loads of laundry and dishes.



LOL! This is (sadly) too true in the Barrett household and yes, I must admit it my fault. This is a major source of tension in our family (marriage) – only 2^nd to cleaning! I do love clean clothes. I have two problems – I forget to put them in the dryers. However, more often than that they just get left in baskets. - Even if the get folded, they get stacked in basket in rooms and never get put in drawers. Then the next time bedrooms are cleaned, the same folded clothes find their way back into my laundry room. I do to try to keep the house clean most of the time I feel like it's all I can do to keep my head above water. It would be so easy to blame all of of this on CP. But I won't; I can't. My problem is the depression and lack of motivation. I can also tend to be on the lazy side!

Pro. 31 Challenge ~ Week 2

Week 2:  Proverbs 31:13-15 

¹³ She selects wool and flax 

   and works with eager hands. 

¹⁴ She is like the merchant ships, 

   bringing her food from afar. 

¹⁵ She gets up while it is still night; 

   she provides food for her family 

   and portions for her female servants.

This week's challenge - I'm not doing it week by week as I'd planned - so it's ironic that this week's challenge is on planning and preparing for the day.  Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a planner by nature.  I find planners attractive; Barrett is a definite planner.   He's the typical Type A personality.   The old saying  "Opposites attract" must be true in our case.  We even marvel to ourselves at how funny we are to have made it thus far.  He is such an awesome man,  God has truly bless me.  I really do think Barrett got the short end of the stick.  He deserves the best & I'm  trying not to let on that I'm  not her!!!  I'm going to steal a saying from Joyce Myers..."I may no be where I need to be, but think God I'm not where I used to be!"  I really wished  I could be  the classic Suzzy Homemaker, but I can pray to God to help me be the best I can be.  Yes I do need to do a better job at planning for my home.   I need to tackle my chores and responsiblies in  a  more timely fashion.  I am trying to stick to a 2 week menu plan.  One think I really need to work on is to take advantage  the times  when  I really feel good to kind of compensate for times when I don't feel good so that maybe I won't get so far behind at times when I not able to do all I need to.

Pro. 31 Challenge ~ Week 1

http://lynishiskid.blogspot.com/2011/01/day-in-our-life-blog-hop-woman-of-noble.html

Week 1:  

Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character

 ^10 [b]A wife of noble character who can find? 
   She is worth far more than rubies. 
¹¹ Her husband has full confidence in her 
   and lacks nothing of value. 
¹² She brings him good, not harm, 
   all the days of her life


Proverbs 31:10-12  


  Are you a virtuous and capable wife more precious than rubies?  Does your husband trust you, and do you enrich his life?   Do you bring him good everyday?  Write a post about something you would like to change about yourself, and something you love about yourself.  How does this add to the enrichment of your husband's life?       


I LOVE studying the Proverbs 31 woman.  Although I struggle with the fact that I can never be like her.  Some how I don't see her as a disabled woman who suffered from moderate depression.  I know Barrett loves me and I think when all is said and done I do think he thinks I'm a good wife.  There are a lot of things I can do better.  Because of my disability, our life is difficult at time and some of these things won't change until God heals me or until we enter into glory.  I think my attitude affects Barrett more than what I do or don't do.


What would I like to change about my self? WOW! That's a loaded question.  The one thing I want ~ and need~ is to become more organized and to stay on top of things.


What do you love about yourself and how does it enrich your husband's life?  UHM, Ironically, I think that because Barrett's type A  and I'm obviously not.  I do think the fact that we stress over different keeps us balanced.    On I more direct note, I think Barrett and I see things in much different ways.  Through my weaknesses of my disability, I have gain a perception that he doesn't have, ~ as he has perceptions that I don't have.  I can see stuff in the home and with the kids that he doesn't get to see.    I have that extra time in my day to give them the little extra attention.  I also see how mine and Barrett personalities  and reaction effect my kids.  I think it's good for them to  see that even though we're different and sometimes have different aspects of thing that we love each other and they we want the best for our families.  We make a good team,