Being a Wife

Mondays are the days I stop being a pastor and become a wife. Not that both roles can't coincide, but it's sometimes hard to do both at the same time. I suppose this is also influenced by my ideal vision of what a wife should do. I might be a little traditional in this idea that a wife cooks and cleans and takes care of the babies. When I'm on the phone, doing paper work, studying, out doing visitations...  my house usually looks like a mess, my meals aren't all that appetizing, and lets just say it's a good thing I don't have babies yet.

Jeremy has been quite good with it. After spending the day in Matane last week for district meetings, I came home to a spotless house that needed some serious cleaning. He's been a great help! But, in all honesty, I cannot wait for the day when I'm a stay at home mom. Circumstances in our life have lead us to be in the place we are now - where I have to work and Jeremy fills the 'pastor's wife' role; but, I have no opposition to it changing one day. Understand that I know I'm blessed to have this job where I can actually be flexible enough to work from home, or from the beach, or bake a meal as I prepare my sermon. It's a blessing to have a job - period!

But, seriously, how do families where both parents work full-time actually do it? Anyway.. side note!

Back to today. Today was a day of cleaning and preparing for the visit of the in-laws! Jeremy's parents are coming tomorrow and so we have been scrubbing and dusting and organizing stuff most of the day. My clothes line was full. (My clothes line needs some serious fixing as it drags my clothes through the bushes we have because it's too lose! Another thing on the to do list.) We also tried fitting a massive King size foam into one of our tiny bedrooms upstairs. After some re-organizing we succeeded only to realize that finding sheets and blankets big enough would be another story. We'll see how things turn out tomorrow I suppose.

Jeremy also put up our new Quebec license plate that after spending over 700$ in inspections and worthless inspections and replacing breaks (cause this city is built on a mountain!) and traveling to this garage and that garage and dealing on the phone with a bunch of ..... anyway! Let me tell you that the "Je me souviens" (I remember) written on the plate is going to make me recall this complicated annoying experience every time I see it. Not my fondest moment of Quebec. The challenges of culture shock - you think you're moving to another country or something!

But, after our full day, I cooked us some fish and we sat down to watch Master Chef New Zealand together! I was so excited to finally succeed at cooking fish without over cooking and butchering it! Jeremy's favorite meal is fish (and trust me, there aren't many things Jeremy likes so I better do it good). But, the first time I tried cooking it I completely massacred the thing. I've never been a terrible cook, but I guess I've never really been pushed to cook outside of what I normally like to do. There's another place where I have got some learning to do and that's where Master Chef comes in. We love watching those competitive cooking shows: Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Master Chef, etc...

It's so nice to have a day a week just to be a couple. As we were doing the dishes together today, I was thinking to myself how much I enjoy having someone to spend my days with. Someone that listens to me ramble and complain about this and that. Someone who helps me mop the floors and dry the dishes. This being married thing has been a big adjustment in my life - to be honest again; and the more I get used to it the more I love it! I love being a wife!