Fighting on Family Vacations (??)

Do you ever find yourself tempted to FIGHT when you are on a family vacation that is supposed to be FUN?

Fred and I had a few minutes of that temptation this morning when, on his day off, we started to fall into this TRAP:

Tara: “Fred, how would you like to spend your day off?” (Wanting to bless him.)

Fred: “Oh. I don’t know. What would YOU like?” (Wanting to bless me.)

Tara: “Well, we could hang out at home after gymnastics and violin. Or we could go for a hike. We could be productive or totally relax and just veg out / play games / read. What would YOU like?”

Fred: “Hmmmm. Well. Maybe I’ll run some errands. Or work in the yard. Or I could take Soph to gymnastics. What would YOU like?”

Now, I know that to some of you, it might sound like a pretty lame fight. “Are they arguing about being nice to each other?” BUT, I have to tell you, IT’S NO FUN. And we could’ve gone into quite a little RUT of unpleasantness, but thankfully, we pulled out of it, communicated in a more productive manner, and ended up having a very nice family day.

(By the skin of our chinny chin chin.)

Thank God for grace!

I’m off to make some dinner now–

Yours,
Tara B.