Happy Monday!

This week we are chatting about teamwork. Our first week of Marriage Monday I defined partnership as two people working together towards a common goal. Well today I am defining teamwork as the actions of that partnership. What it looks like and how you approach that goal as a team.

Image by Christa Elyce Photography

From the very beginning of our marriage and even before, when we were planning our lives together, with the simplest of things as registering together for wedding gifts. We’ve always include each other.

When we moved into our first home, oh my. We painted (for hours!), we tiled, we ripped up carpet, laid hardwood flooring…you get the picture. (If you only knew what our home looked like when we first moved in!)

In business, we are a team by working together to produce meaningful weddings for our couples. We encourage each other when one of us has a better way of creating a particular project. We work together on budgeting and expenses by adding receipts and comparing income to expenses. K has also created an awesome excel sheet for us we use for each wedding. We share labor intensive projects. A lot of people think K just does what I tell him to, or just cleans up after me when I am working on floral pieces, but the truth is we both load and unload the trailer, both clean up, both work on flowers, etc. We are both on the same team, and the team’s goal  is to see a successful event with a happy couple.

For the future, we have had many discussions on parenting. How we will handle certain situations, what we will teach and how we will do it, to name just a few of the endless topics that come with parenting. And here lately, when that planning will become more present planning and not so future. 🙂

We embrace the cliche saying “there is no I in team”, our marriage is not about Kason or Tamara. We didn’t marry ourselves, goodness me could you imagine?! We married each other and immediately became one team. one partnership and therefore we have to continually work to include each other by finding ways one completes the other and therefore betters us as a whole.

Heck, we even still grocery shop, fold laundry, and walk to the mailbox together!

We work everyday to make sure Team Menges is a top priority.

“If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?  If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?  But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.  If they were all one part, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, but one body.” – 1 Corinthians 12:17-20