Friday, November 6, 2009
Tips on Being Thoughtful
This should be sooo easy. So why is my mind drawing a blank. One of my dares this week that I haven't completed yet is doing something thoughtful for my spouse. I did buy his favorite candy and left it around like the "Love in Action" blog suggested. That was a success. My husband landed from a flight and found a card and some candy in his car. He called immediately and was in such a different mood than when he usually lands from a flight. However, I did that before the dare came up so, I have to do another one. I want to accomplish it within the next couple of days. Any ideas?
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About Me
- Dana
- I'm an outside girl that loves horseback riding, hiking, camping,or anything that involves the great outdoors. I from VA though I currently live in Selfkant-Havert, Germany. I drink excessive amounts of coffee. My imagination often runs away with me usually to an awesome horse farm that is self-sustaining where I teach girls how to mesh being athletic, tough, and leadership quality without loosing that gentle and quiet spirit. According to Suellen from "Gone With the Wind," "You can always tell a lady by her hands." I believe there is some truth to that statement. A lady should be strong and capable of caring for her family, gentle enough to quiet tiny tears, ferocious enough to scare away monsters lurking on the bed, and capable of hosting the next ball. I really love having fun doing things on the adventurous side, and the more dangerous the better. I also enjoy drawing and writing some. I absolutely LOVE Traveling and am drawn magnetically to other countries and adventures!!
That just gave me chills of joy thinking of how special it must have been for him to be surprised... At least, if J'd have called me & mentioned something like that, it would have been pretty unique (he likes to tell me he's headed home, unless it's late, but that's it). How cool!
ReplyDeleteMmmm... Well, here's one I did a few weeks ago that's SO hard. J likes to go hunting on Saturday mornings. I look forward to when Elyana goes down on her nap, for getting "me" time in the ~30 minutes before he gets back... Yet, I knew one of those mornings he'd really love a hot breakfast waiting for him (cereal is usual & he gets it himself).... So I put on some bacon, made oj, and fixed pancakes. Yes, it took all my free time, but he was so happy to come home to knowing I'd thought of him & something warm after the cold morning in a deer stand.
Is there something like this? Where you typically let him do something for himself (get his cereal, make his coffee, iron his BDUs, put on his patches to his flight suit?). I dunno. For me it doesn't even get noticed when it's small like that, but I do know that I'm serving him. Sometimes I'll tell him "Did I put the patches on right, I wanted to help" not to get recognition, but because I think it's good for our spouses to know we are trying to make their lives easier too, even when ours are pretty doggone busy too.
Sorry this is so long.
Another way to be thoughtful? Ask if you can start his water for his shower. Silly, but again, it says you're thinking.