When I listed our daily musts and extras I should have clarified that these reflect our family’s priorities.  As a rule, in-home work takes precedence over off-site activities. However, if your children attend school someplace else then that outing and its requirements are a high priority for your family. If you are like Elizabeth, whose husband’s livelihood and recreation is focused around the sports world, then your MITs may include a heavy, but important, sport team schedule.

It is crucial that your understanding of what is most important mirrors your husband’s. I will be candid. My priorities did not reflect my husband’s for many years of our marriage. This caused untold and unnecessary strife in our lives. It took me stepping back and realizing that God gave me THIS man with THIS vision. It was not my concern how other people’s schedules or homes looked. What mattered was how ours worked, which required us to be of one mind.  Success – maritally and otherwise – lies here.