{"id":70,"date":"2012-04-10T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2012\/04\/3-12-time-outs-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:15:58","slug":"3-12-time-outs-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2012\/04\/3-12-time-outs-tuesday.html","title":{"rendered":"3 1\/2 Time-Outs Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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So I have set a goal for this post-Easter week, and it\u2019s a terrible, terrible goal that I want neither to set nor meet, but unfortunately I must do both for the good of my family, and it\u2019s making me cranky.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I am going to set a schedule\u2026not just a daily schedule, although that\u2019s part of it, but a rough outline of a schedule for every day of the week. And then next week I\u2019ll have to start following it, which is really going to be the miserable part because it will require hideous new developments like carefully timed internet usage times.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Since I became a mother, my general goal in life has been to survive the day without yelling and\/or running away. I\u2019ve probably been about 22% successful at this, and it occurs to me now, six years later, that perhaps having an actual plan in place for the day and week instead of flying by the seat of my pants might help bring order to our house.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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That\u2019s a lie. It occurred to me that a schedule would help six years ago and I\u2019ve spent six years studiously ignoring the mounting chaos. I despise schedules. I hate schedules. Schedules make me feel stifled. They kill my spirit. But most importantly, with a schedule in place I won\u2019t be able to find important things on the internet, like this<\/a>. And this<\/a>. Oh, and this!<\/div>\n
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To help me figure out the best way to organize my time and our daily and weekly routines, I\u2019ve spent the last week reading this book. I\u2019ve come to several very important conclusions.<\/div>\n
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1) If anyone ever calls me a helpmeet again, I will punch them in the face.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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2) Using Scripture to point out how much shame I will bring upon my husband if I don\u2019t get off the internet and get my act together is not an effective way to motivate me; it is, however, an effective way to ensure that my husband will return home to a head-spinning wife who is rendered mostly incoherent due to the stream of profanities that keep pouring from her non-help-meet-ey lips.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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3) I do not agree that our family\u2019s daily, weekly and yearly schedule and\/or activities should all be planned around my husband\u2019s interests and desires because \u201cI am his helpmeet; he is not mine.\u201d In fact, when I read that all the blood vessels in my eyes promptly burst and I began a three-hour internal monologue about \u201cthe Patriarchy\u201d which ended with me forcing myself to go read Jezebel to clear my head and remind me of where that monologue ends, if left unchecked.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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4) People who use the phrase \u201ctomato-staked\u201d freak me out and make me think of the Pearls<\/a>. Tying a child to myself as punishment for continual disobedience is not a punishment for them; it\u2019s a punishment for me. Also, who does that?\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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5) The author of this book has some really good ideas for organizing and managing a home, which I am going to employ (albeit grudgingly).\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/b>I will not, however, upon pain of death, get dressed in nice clothes before spending a day homeschooling and cleaning. Not now, not ever. Neither will I spend ten minutes \u201cfreshening up\u201d before my husband\u2019s return from work so that he can come home to \u201ca picture of loveliness.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Yoga pants or die, yo.\n

Go read the rest of the 3 1\/2 Time-Outs Tuesday links at Acts of the Apostasy<\/a>, and thanks to Larry D for hosting! <\/p><\/div>\n

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