Team Pinches
My son was extremely mad at me tonight because I took him to hockey practice. Apparently the talks in the car on the way to school this morning or after football didn’t sink in. Fortunately for me, when I picked up my son and his teammate after hockey, all was good again.
Giving Props
There will be a thoughtful point to this post but it may take a story or two to get us to it.
I got married later in life, I was thirty-three. I once had a career in advertising and I made three times the amount my boyfriend (before he was my hub) was making during that time. But a year or two before we got married, because of total burn out, I became a pre-school teacher. It actually cost me money to be a teacher because my income was practically nothing after my expenses. {SIDE NOTE: the Thoughtful Pinch blog exists because teachers are special people}.
My Helpers
When I first got married I was taught early on that I would need help around the house because of the hours my hub would be putting into his career. Since I had never had to hire anyone before that, I began practicing my hospitality skills on anyone who would come into my home and help me. Whether it was a plumber, a gardener, a designer, a housekeeper, a painter, handyman, a/c repair person, etc. I practiced looking them in the eyes and remembering their names.