Hi HIH,

My wife has her own career in retail, but she's boxed herself into a spot where it's hard to advance. She goes to book club once a month, and she does scrapbooking as a hobby. But she doesn't do much other than that. She started exercising some, but isn't very disciplined with it.

Our family life isn't really that structured. W and the girls used to have Movie Night on Friday's, that I usually skipped. I've started joining them. It's not a going out movie night, just DVDs.

W likes to have family dinners, so that's a bit structured. We plan our meals for the week ahead of time to save $$ on groceries.

My biggest 180s have been listening better, exercising, being more involved with our Ds, writing my novel, and church. I've also been reading a lot of stuff I normally wouldn't approach.