Confessions & Coupons

Ah, a good nights sleep, a warm shower, and now I'm feeling very refreshed. 
I was just searching the web for other blogs and I ran across this one called True Wife Confessions.  The first few I read I thought were outrageously rude.  Then I read this one:

Confession #3159

"I am sorry that I set up a trap for you to fall into, and then blew up at you when you did what you thought I wanted you to do. It wasn't fair, and I am sorry. I am so glad we can talk about it - rationally - and I could apologize to you. I love you, and old patterns are hard to correct, but I think we can just keep trying. Thank you for loving me - when I feel very unlovable."

I think that's exactly what I should say to my husband.  Our arguments last night were mostly because of the traps I set for him. 

Little things, but 12 little things equals a dozen, and a dozen is more than a handful.  And if you have more than a handful it may be hard to handle. 

Here is an example of one of our bickering moments last night:  
Me: "Did you shut the lights off in the garage?"  After I had already peeked out the peep hole and saw that he hadn't shut the lights off.
Hubby: "No, I haven't yet"
Me: "Are you serious??  It's midnight, you haven't been out there for 2 hours, and you STILL have the light on?  You've got to be joking, you already shut it off, didn't you?"
Hubby: "NO!  Why would I joke about that?  If it pisses you off, you go shut the light off, or I'll get it later".
Me: "Whatever" & I walked away expressing what I quite often tell the princess is BAD BODY LANGUAGE.  Crossed arms, huffing and puffing, nasty look on my face.

I had no right to look for something to fight about.  I coulda/shoulda shut the light off myself and went to bed.  But I was too busy being a brat.  A freakin' brat.  & That's probably not the last time we'll have a disagreement like that.  But for now, I'm on my way outside to say I AM SORRY.

Outside, because my husband has graciously taken the children out in the yard (that he planted, and takes care of) to play catch while I have some alone time.  He is so amazing sometimes. :-)  I just can't get enough of him!

This is a good day.  A very good day.

Bonus note:  I took the princess grocery shopping with me and taught her how to use coupons.  We'll keep practicing this, but I was SO proud of her.  I'm going to say it again PROUD!!  I showed her the 'day old bakery' section of the store, and explained that a cream cheese coffee cake was only ONE DOLLAR!  She shook her head, pushed her cart away and said "nah, I'm going to stick to my coupons today".  Needless to say, I had to pass on it too.

So we came home and put 5 loaves of pumpkin bread in the oven. I used my grandma's recipe.  This is the first I've made pumpkin bread, I am very excited to see how it turns out.