Tony doesn't do family shopping trips very well. I can't really blame him since Elle wants to be carried the whole time, Britt abhors shopping for more than 5 minutes and Ash will not stay with us.
We have a camping trip/family reunion coming up and we needed to get gear (all we have is a tent) and food so I texted Tony this afternoon (when he was at work) and asked him if he wanted to run to Idaho Falls to get everything. I thought he'd say no and was totally planning on going with a friend.
Surprisingly, he said yes. It was a fun. At first.
Then Tony got grumpy and so I got irritated. Surely this sounds familiar to you, right? The roles have totally been reversed for us. There are plenty of times when I've gotten crabby and then Tony loses his patience with my bad attitude. Haha!
So, anyways, I realized that I was basically fighting a frown with a frown and, seriously, when does that EVER work?
I had to talk myself down and force myself to stop reacting and then things just magically smoothed out and Tony got happy again.
Not that it's always that easy, but sometimes it just works out that way.
Those of you who have a spouse, or are in a relationship - what do you do when the love of your life is being grouchy? Do you find it easy to just balance things out? Do you take it personally and snap at them? If you've got a trick for lifting his/her mood, spill the beans! I would love a couple more ideas to utilize.
And even though she doesn't have much to do with the topic, here is my sweet, chubby Elle.
She weighs 16 pounds. And likes to say, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" very loudly. Haha.
We have a camping trip/family reunion coming up and we needed to get gear (all we have is a tent) and food so I texted Tony this afternoon (when he was at work) and asked him if he wanted to run to Idaho Falls to get everything. I thought he'd say no and was totally planning on going with a friend.
Surprisingly, he said yes. It was a fun. At first.
Then Tony got grumpy and so I got irritated. Surely this sounds familiar to you, right? The roles have totally been reversed for us. There are plenty of times when I've gotten crabby and then Tony loses his patience with my bad attitude. Haha!
So, anyways, I realized that I was basically fighting a frown with a frown and, seriously, when does that EVER work?
I had to talk myself down and force myself to stop reacting and then things just magically smoothed out and Tony got happy again.
Not that it's always that easy, but sometimes it just works out that way.
Those of you who have a spouse, or are in a relationship - what do you do when the love of your life is being grouchy? Do you find it easy to just balance things out? Do you take it personally and snap at them? If you've got a trick for lifting his/her mood, spill the beans! I would love a couple more ideas to utilize.
And even though she doesn't have much to do with the topic, here is my sweet, chubby Elle.
She weighs 16 pounds. And likes to say, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" very loudly. Haha.
