Ain't nobody got time for that!

What an inconsiderate bastard I can be.  Is it me?  I don't know.  I got up early today to go start the the week with a friend in devotional.  I come home, and no one is out of bed getting ready for school, my daughter tells me they are sleeping late because my wife "doesn't feel well".  My wife yells from the other room for me to come look at her throat.  Internally I sigh and think "I don't have time for this".  In reality I am up an hour earlier than usual getting ready for work.  I do have time for this.  I look down her throat, I don't see much, just looks sore.  I have a sore throat too.  Maybe we are just passing a cold around.  It's hard to say.  The thing that gets me though is she often has a reason to not be timely and she's typically dramatic about it.  Last week my kids either didn't make it to school or didn't make it to school on time at minimum two out of five days.  The week prior to that was Thanksgiving, but the week before Thanksgiving they only made it three out of five days as well.  My mother takes them to school two days out of the week so that means my wife was only able, in the last two school weeks to take them on time once a week.  That's frustrating.  Especially when I am paying for them to go to private school because I want them to have an excellent education.  Further more that's my wife's only job.  I think that being a good mom and wife is a full time job so I encourage my wife to stay at home.  Matter of fact I pay her to stay at home. I really, literally do.  I pay every bill except her gas, groceries and spending money.  Those are her responsibilities and should come out of her $25,000 a year I give her (after taxes!).  That is her JOB.  What do you do though? So now you understand my lack of compassion, but it still bothers me.  No matter what's going on, no matter the past, not matter how she acts or what she does I should still be willing to take more time.  I should take her complaints more seriously.  I wish, I hope and I pray I can have more compassion for her.  The boy who cried wolf is hard to take seriously though.