My Week Off

I don't want to interfere with Mama Kat's Wednesday Posts, so I thought I'd do mine a day early this week. That and I haven't seen you guys since Friday... sorry about that. Things in my world are pretty good, but I'm not sad to report that I have no updates this week on the "100 days."

The weekend is kind of a blur, but I know for a fact that Day 14 went well. Day 11 - 13, notsomuch. I had too many voices in my head last week and somehow fell into that "pressure" rut. It really didn't have anything to do with Mr. AFRo, I think it was my own issues of wanting to succeed in my little venture. But, as usual, I am not discouraged. I think we're going to stop the count at Day 14 though and resume with that one next week. Seems fair?

Mr. AFRo is definitely in good spirits though. I am seeing significant improvements in his attitude towards most of the situations that can normally be stressful in our household. I suppose there's more "love in the air." *eye roll* The kids attitudes have improved also, which is kind of weird. They seem to be happier and I'm sure it's because their home life is not as tense as it has been in recent months.

I hope I don't sound like our marriage has been terrible. It really hasn't. We'd just hit a rut, which I think is normal after almost 8 years? If there's one thing I've learned during that period of time though, it's that if the daddy isn't happy, nobody's happy. So, we're going to keep the daddy happy. Right? I told BFF last night that if I'd known only 20 minutes a day could get me virtually whatever I wanted, I would've started this a long time ago. (I did actually know, I just preferred to ignore the fact.)

I'm so excited that some of you have jumped board with my challenge! It makes it more fun to know that I'm not the "lone ranger" trying to create the "above average" marriage.... and I guess I'm sharing because I don't like that so many of us try to pretend that we already have the perfect marriage when we're in bloggerland, but their reality is kind of sad. I'm just real and I hope I'm conveying that in these posts.

So, share your stories ladies... be encouraged that you're not alone and if you haven't jumped on board, you should... it's a lot more fun than it sounds. I promise.

My excuse this week: Duh. We're not going to talk about it.

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