Setting The Tone

I'm not afraid or ashamed to admit that I'm a pretty domineering person; not to be confused with controlling or demanding- two things I try very hard not to be.  It's just that I am pretty head strong on a lot of things and to his credit, Jim is pretty content to let me be and that's why we work so well.  It's no secret that most of the things we do: trips, shopping, going out to eat are planned by me and around my wants; so when Jim insisted that over the weekend we do things that he wanted, I had to really check myself.  I was thinking that planning and organizing is kinda my thing, so if I haven't figured everything out, it was pretty much bound to be terrible and I let him know it.

But I also let him know afterwards that I was completely wrong.  He planned a nice hayride for me and the boys.  He got the tickets and figured out where it was, he made sure that the boys were dressed and ready all despite my poor attitude.  I had pretty much set the tone that this was going to be a bust and that I was going to be pissy about it.

Despite of all the craziness I put out there, he really came through.  The boys had a blast; there was a real tractor with a farmer and a dog, there were balloon animals and spooky goings-ons all over.  Everyone was really happy- we weren't just phoning it in for the pictures... and despite Arden's momentary grumpiness, which I'm happy to have captured because it was so cute, we all had a really good time.

So thanks to my husband for making this hayride come together even though I was throwing out some major attitude about it; he was really proud of himself and now he has a something to throw up at me when I'm acting crazy next time.