Hello and Welcome to Week THREE of Mommy Madness 2015! The month of March is FLYING by and we are having so much fun strengthening our relationships daily with the people most important in our lives… our families! I hope you are excited and ready to have a fun week celebrating your marriage and relationship with the man in your life!
If you are a single mom, no worries! I encourage you to do what you can with this week’s challenges. You can change them up to appropriately fit your current situation with your children, a friend, your boyfriend or another family member.
The first week of Mommy Madness, we focused on finding ourselves and realizing what important roles we hold as women! The second week we focused on our children and celebrated them every single day – after all, they are the ones that made us MOMS! And this week, we are going to focus on the men in our lives, who all too often get brushed to the side after the babies come.
STEP ONE: To start things off, you are going to want to PRINT OUT this cute “I Love You More Than ____ ” sign on a piece of paper and stick it in a 8×10 picture frame. You are going to be using it ALL week long!
Every morning you will be putting the sign somewhere your man will see it {on the bed, in the bathroom, by the front door, in the fridge} and fill in the blank with a dry-erase marker. I will tell you the word every day that you will want to write. It will be a little clue for him to know what is coming later on that day.
Today we suggest you write “WORDS” as the hint of what is to come today. But you can write something clever of your own if you choose! This is our example:
Like I said, you will be using this frame all week long – it will be a fun way to show your love to him every single day! AND you can even keep doing it after the Challenge is over… forever!
STEP TWO: Today’s Challenge is called Soulmate Sunday – a special day where we are going to have the opportunity of reconnecting with our loves and get to know them better!
After becoming parents, it is SO easy to get wrapped into the lives of our children and slowly push our husbands away. We don’t mean to – but with our long lists of things to do and trying to make the babies happy all day, it is easy to forget about the guy we love the most.
Starting today and for the rest of the week, our goal is to rekindle our marriages and relationships with the men in our lives. The pursuit of having a happy and healthy marriage is something we should all strive for. When we are fighting less and loving more, we are happier! And when we are happier, we are better moms.
You may have heard of the 5 Love Languages – have you?! Did you know that everyone feels, recognizes and expresses love differently?! In our marriages it is SO important that we recognize our spouses “love language”, so we can show them the kind of love that they need!
So today, your challenge is as follows: You are going to learn what your love languages are! Grab your man and your computer {or phones} and CLICK HERE to take the Love Language Quiz with your spouse. You will take it one at a time to learn what each other’s language is. They have two options where you can take it on the computer or you can print off the PDF version of the test.
One of you may end up with the results of Words of Affirmation or Acts of Service and the other may need Quality Time or Receiving Gifts. It will be fun to see how each of you feel and recognize love! Often times, it isn’t the same!
In my marriage, I am all about quality time and physical touch. Where my husband is all about acts of service! It is SO nice for us to know though, that I need him to just spend time and cuddle with me… while he would like me to surprise him by doing the dishes.
After you learn each other’s love languages, have your man fill out the following questionaire which you will be referring to later this week:
STEP THREE: This is for YOUR EYES only. If you are a husband reading….STOP. 🙂 Wives – we have a REALLY special week coming up for your men and in order to prepare, you need to do something ASAP. We need you to email or text ALL of your husband’s friends and family and ask them to write a little note or letter to your husband. The MORE people you collect letters from, the BETTER! Think about his close friends, his long distance friends, his church friends, his co-workers, his family, your family, grandmas, grandpas… EVERYONE! THIS IS A SECRET!!
Ask them to send the emails or letters to YOU by THIS Thursday and YOU hang on to the letters! Don’t let your husband see them! They are for a big surprise coming up so SHHH! 🙂
That is ALL – I am really excited for this week!! It is going to be SO fun showing love to our MEN! Have a great day finding out your husband’s LOVE LANGUAGE and interviewing him! It will be amazing to find out more about the guys in our lives – and how we can show love to them better!
Just as a reminder: Pin THIS image on Pinterest right now from our Mommy Madness Challenge board. {IMPORTANT: It must be pinned from that specific board and be that pin so we can get your entries in for the day!} Then after you complete the challenge, come back to Pinterest and comment on our Day FIFTEEN Pin {THIS pin} and tell us that you did it!
For extra entries: Post a picture on Instagram or Facebook of you working on the challenge OR Tweet about it on Twitter – just be sure on ALL Social Media to be sure you use #MommyMadness2015 so we can see each entry! You can also tag Today’s The Best Day in {optional} so we are notified and can check it out!
Have a WONDERFUL Sunday and we hope today is the BEST day! xoxo
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