Articles Read:
- Don’t Give My Husband Romance Lessons
I enjoyed reading this little piece complaining (sort of) about others telling men what romantic means–especially because it came on the heels of a question a man asked in our Sunday School class “Is it okay for me to ask my wife what she thinks is romantic?” The answer was, of course, an unequivocal “YES!” The truth is, I like flowers and chocolates and furbelows as much as the next woman, but I’m too frugal and practical for Daniel giving me those things to be romantic. If he were to start bringing me home bouquets and candy, I’d probably think “Oh, that’s sweet, he’s trying to show me he cares” and then start worrying about which budget line that was coming out of and where I could cut something else to make it fit and… Thankfully, Daniel and I have discussed this and he knows how to romance me without spending money. Remember, men, you don’t need to know how to romance women, just how to romance your wife–so ask her, study her to figure out how to do it.
Books added to TBR List:
- From Lisa Writes’ Best of 2013 List
- The Presidents Club by Nancy Briggs
- Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (reviewed by Susan of Girls in White Dresses)
- From Seth Heasley’s Year of Reading
- The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood by David R. Montgomery
- Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
- Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
- Ratio by Michael Ruhlman (reviewed by Seth of Collateral Bloggage)
- Churchill and the King by Kenneth Weisbrode (reviewed by Elizabeth of 5M4B)
- Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan (Reviewed by Amy of Hope is the Word)
2014 Goal Game: 128 points
| Tier 1 | This month | |
|---|---|---|
| Establish a Church home | 17 points | |
| Cope with Depression | 17 points | |
| Be a good wife | 9 points | |
| Unnamed goal | 1 point | |
| Tier 2 | This month | |
| Get House in Order | 13 points | |
| Be a good employee | 3 points | |
| Be more social | 38 points | |
| Tier 3 | This month | |
| Take Time for Hobbies | 22 points | |
| Cook through “One Pot” cookbook | 8 points |
I saw that one about romance, too, and appreciated it. I saw a similar article a while back with the same idea applied to submission – a wife doing all sorts of things that she thought a good, submissive wife would do, until she asked him once what his priorities for her were and found out they were different. We so need to take our cues from each other rather than culture.