Well as you can see I am trying to keep up with this. I just don’t know how other church members do it. How do you juggle working, church and church callings and family. Now that my wife is working (and she seems to like where she is working) there is less time together and we scramble to get things done. I know that this will even out over time and we are making Christy do more around the house. Stuff that used to get done during the day now has to be crammed in at night or on Saturday since we don’t work on Sunday – oh well hopefully in time this will even out or we will have to rethink the whole calling thing. Of course my wife would not like me to be talking like this about callings but there is a certain stress brought into the house by the callings and it is there nonetheless. I want to jump back on the subject of my wife working, this is such a relief after all of these years that there will be more money coming into the house – she got her first paycheck yesterday and even though it was only for one day (end of last pay period) it was great to think that in two weeks she will get a full paycheck and we can start paying down some bills that have slowly gathered over the years – oh by the way I didn’t mention, we got all of our credit cards together and cut them all up – that we there will be no temptations.
April 29, 2008 at 7:49 am |
I know this might sound weird, but I enjoyed this post despite the stress that comes through. Why? Because I can identify with everything you said. Getting a balance is difficult…but possible. Cramming in all of the “second shift” things in is challenging at best. Doing a commendable job in church callings adds even more stress. Having a second paycheck is great. Truly, I can identify with it all.
As an older person who’s “been there, done that,” I’ll tell you like I recently told my daughter, the wife of a bishop and the mother of three little ones. “Just do the best you can, and be sure to carve out a little time for yourself. You can’t get water from a dry well.”