My husband

So my husband is working full time 6:45am - 3:15pm Monday - Friday for a great company.

He then has his classes (one more quarter then he has his BA in English Linguistics) full time 4:00pm - 9pm (usually Monday- Thursday)

I am home all day with our 3 year old son. I rarely go out during the week because we live in the mountains so if I go out I make it an all day event for gas purposes.

I love what I do for my family.

I make my husbands breakfast, lunch and dinner, and I put it all in his cooler to take with him daily.

I do the dishes and I hate that part cause we don’t have a dishwasher.

I do the laundry and I hate folding. Who doesn’t?!

I wake up our son at 8am and have his breakfast ready. I then sit down and eat with him. We then play with our pups.

I cook, clean the house and sometimes yards. I try not to complain. We are a one income family. Renting in California (southern to be precise) is hard. Our families love us and help with anything and everything they can.

Our son never goes without. He’s clean, fed, healthy. He’s learning and is excited about it. He’s outside exploring our backyard (mountains) he goes on adventures with our pups (in a fenced in back yard while I’m there. Don’t call CPS!)

I miss my husband very much while he is away for 15+ hours. But this is where I’m more impressed:

He will walk in our front door at 9pm and be greeted by 3 eager and happy boys and a happy wife. He is tired. He is exhausted. He wants to shower. He wants sleep. But he doesn’t do any of that. He picks up our son and plays with him. Whatever our son wants to play.

He then gives our son a bath and our son tells him all about his day (and also it gives me time to recharge and pack his food for the next day to start it all over) all while the pups are at my husbands feet happy he is home.

He then gets our son ready for bed and he reads to our son. 2-3 books depending on our sons mood. We then talk about our day again as the light goes off.

My husband works hard to provide this life for us where I can be at home and raise our son until he is ready for preschool. When that time comes I will be back in school to finish my degree.

I read a lot of bad husbands / bad dads. Every story I read I look at mine and am so fortunate to be with a man who loves how strong, stubborn, impatient, pain in the ass and independent I can be. And loves me for it all. He believes in my power to change the world, one child at a time. He loves me for my good and my bad, my pretty and my ugly. He loves me for me.

And I couldn’t be more in love with him if I tried. It’s not always happiness in our home but there is always love. And that is something I will always be proud of. This life and this family that I have created with my husband.