June 4, 2010

I am home from work and I just realized that giving has escaped me today—a small bit of panic set in when I realized this! What will I give?  Who will I give it to now that I am settled at home?  Every other day has been so easy; why did this have to happen on a Friday?  But then it occurred to me that I have yet to give to one of the most important people in my life—Andrew!  For those that don’t know me, Andrew is my spouse and one of the most generous people I know— why has it taken me 4 days to get to him?

So Andrew is going to get the gift of a clean condo before the weekend. Like so many couples, we have routines and one of those routines is to clean, shop, and organize our lives on the weekends. It’s great to start the week with everything done but it does tend to eat into our time to have fun together on weekends. So tonight, before he got home from work, I cleaned the condo so that we would have more time together this weekend.

I can imagine that living with someone with a full-time teaching job who is also taking a part-time masters program and has serious perfectionist tendencies can be a little tedious at times!  He often comments that if worrying were a sport, I would be a gold medal contender—and he’s probably right on that account.  So maybe with all of this cleaning done, we will be able to just be a “normal” couple this weekend and enjoy one another’s company.

I love that giving has reminded me to take time for the important people in my life.

Read about Days 2 & 3 in Rachel’s Challenge.

Read about Day 1 in Rachel’s Challenge.

Read about why Rachel started the 29 Day Challenge.

Related posts:

1. 29 Days of Giving
2. 29 Days of Giving Challenge: Day One
3. 29 Days of Giving: Days 2 & 3