For those who don’t know Ben does a form of martial arts called Aikido and at the moment he is very busy training twice a day as the Aikido club he belongs to has visitors from Japan over teaching them lots of new cool ways to kill someone with their pinky finger (at least that is my understanding of it).

Needless to say Ben has been quite exhausted and sore the past few days. This morning Ben toddled off to training at 5am. When I woke at 7am I found a ripped open packet of pain killers on the counter amongst a whole pile of dirty dishes from the past few days. I took the hint that he was sore and tired again so grabbed the dishes and put them in the dishwasher, picked his dirty clothes up off the floor and put them in the dirty clothes basket and fed the cats so he wouldn’t have to worry when he got home.

It was very quick and easy for me to do these things but it helped me to turn what was starting to look like a bad day into a good day. I feel good when I can help out others especially when it is someone who will appreciate it, like Ben. I think also I secretly want to be a housewife cause this sort of stuff always cheers me up, silly but true.