30-Day Challenge – Update!

From the comments on last week’s post, I can tell that most of us are struggling a little bit with this one. I will be the first to put my hand in the air and say that I have fallen way short these past fifteen days. My, oh, my. I think I actually might have been a better wife BEFORE I did this challenge!

It’s not that I’m this horrid, nagging wife – quite the opposite, in fact. We’ve moved into a bigger space (almost three times the size of our former apartment) and my hubby has staked out his territory in the basement a.k.a. the “Man Cave.” As a result, I simply don’t see him.

I put the kids to bed and he retreats to his surround-sound, wide-screen LCD TV, ESPN HD headquarters. I usually go to bed before he does so I usually only see him in the mornings, in the mad dash to get the kids to daycare and head off to work. It’s not that I’ve been falling short – it’s that I’ve been FORGETTING. Forgetting to do something nice for my husband, as if it requires any type of brain activity at all. How sad is that?

How have you all been doing? Better than me? Worse? Let us know!

Tara Pringle Jefferson is a freelance writer from Ohio, where she lives with her husband and two kids. Visit her blog, TheYoungMommyLife.com, for daily musings about the issues young moms face.

About the author

Lamar and Ronnie Tyler are the creators of the award-winning blog BlackandMarriedWithKids.com . They also are behind the Amazon.com bestselling DVDs Happily Ever After: A Positive Image of Black Marriage, You Saved Me and Men Ain’t Boys that explores manhood in the African American community. The Tylers are also the proud parents of four children.

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