I am a very organised person. It’s quite rare for the husband to be the organised person in the household. I’ve always been organised. My wife is the total opposite of me. She likes to just take everything as it comes as she believes everything will ‘sort itself’. While it’s true that everything will sort itself out, I do find that everything does seem to take twice as long with this sort of approach. I suppose this is why my wife and I are such a solid couple. She helps me appreciate the need to relax, as I help her value the importance of taking action.
The time when our son needed to visit the optometrist is a good example of how, and why, all appointment scheduling is now left to me. My son needed to visit a behavioural optometrist. This was a request that was made by his primary school teacher. The teacher noticed my son struggling at school and not wanting to participate in activities that involved reading or the white board. At first we assumed it was because he was shy and felt nervous in front of a big group. In time, the teacher realised that my son’s struggles might actually have something to do with his eyesight.
As my wife was the one who had the conversation with the teacher, I thought she would have been the one to book the appointment for our son to visit the optometrist. Apparently she walked him past the optometrist one day, but they didn’t have an appointment so she’s waiting for the next time he’s with her to pop in. I informed her that this is not a good way to do something as you might never get an appointment. I took the matter into my own hands and booked the best children’s optometrist near Bayside. I managed to get an appointment for the very next day. By the end of the week my son had his glasses and was a whole new person in class.