Sometimes I go through "growth spurts" where I grow a lot in my role as a wife but it takes a lot of pushing and pulling and emotional ups and downs. I am going through one of those times now. The ups and downs don't all directly correlate.

Up: Baked an apple pie and got an AMAZING compliment from my husband! :D
Down: Apple pie filling boiled over in oven and now I have to learn how to clean an oven, which means dinner is going to be VERY late. :(
Down: Realizing I get VERY self-absorbed whenever I do just-for-fun window shopping.
Down: Forgot to bring Dave Ramsey's cash envelope system with me on several grocery shopping trips, resulting in money system confusion which I still haven't figured out (but Stephen seems to think he has it figured out?).
Down: Missing $10 in the record-keeping with Dave Ramsey's cash envelopes. Ugh.
Up: Realized that it might just be okay to be a housewife. (!!?) This has seriously never occurred to me before.
Up: Realized being a housewife means I get to make the decisions regarding the house!

The money confusion thing is the biggest frustration right now. If I don't know exactly where every dollar is going and where every dollar is coming from, I am SO LOST and I do NOT like being lost. So...

Down: Discovering how much I HATE being lost when it concerns money.
Down: Realizing something has got to give here and not knowing what it is yet. :/

Oy. Anyway. I think the oven may be cooled off enough now to start cleaning it (I hope?). I need to stop thinking about money and start thinking about an oven.

-Stephanie

Afterthought: More than anything, I wish I had a motherly figure to take me under her wing and teach me the housewifery basics that I didn't learn growing up. Wait a sec....Tena? (Liz's mom.)

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