Workin in the desert

I'll admit I was one of those wives who thought their husband had no idea how much work it takes to be a stay at home mom. Heck...I used to be one of those women who had no idea what it takes to be a stay at home mom. I sometimes wondered what I could say to Jordan to help him understand how hard I work, but I never came up with anything that didn't come across as "please feel sorry for me because my self-induced life is soooo hard. sniff sniff."

Well, Jordan proved that I am a lucky lucky woman tonight. I was coming up the stairs with Jackson in the moby wrap (wrapped up against my torso. Side note: Some friends of ours lent us a baby bjorn so Jordan could help me out and carry Jackson around sometimes because I kept complaining about how much it hurt my back. After a few times using HIS carrier Jordan definitely sympathizes.) Anyway...coming up the stairs with Jack as well as an armful of diapers and laundry that had just finished. I started to put it all away and said something to him along the lines of..."well, today was a productive day! I got my homework done, we went to the commissary, I made dinner and dessert, and did the laundry and got it put away." He may have been making an attempt to get in my pants, but my amazing husband replied "Dang. You never get a day off do you? This is like working in the desert for you." In those few (completely non romantic sentences) my husband won my heart all over again. You see, when he's deployed he works 14-20 hours a day. Every day. Every single day. Bleck! Since I was aircrew we worked on a 3 day cycle with every 3rd day completely off. He'd tell you it's because we were spoiled little aircrew brats. He's probably right. lol.

Point of the story is, being a mom is hard. (It's amazing and fulfilling and wonderful and exactly what I want to be doing right now...but it's still hard.) And my husband gets all that..and that makes me love him even more.