Mom and Dad Teamwork
Melissa had a happy hour tonight with some of her former coworkers. The company she worked for went under about a year ago and they get together every once in a while. We were supposed to go together tonight with Rylan, but, of course, I didn’t really want to. (I would have been the only husband/wife there). She was still supposed to take Rylan to go see her former coworkers. It was 5:00 and Rylan was still taking a nap (he had a baby shot today).
“David, should I wake Rylan up it is almost 5:00.”
“Won’t it be a pain in the butt to feed him with all those people there?”
“Yes it would be a pain in the butt. I can still bring him”
“Babe, you can leave him here and I’ll feed him dinner and everything else. It will be fun for you to go and Rylan does need his sleep.”
“You need to do your essay and I told you that I would take him.” (I am taking some continuing education classes)
“I have to do like 27 pages of essays, one can wait. You go and I can take care of Rylan. Again, it will be a pain in the butt to feed him and he does need his sleep.”
“Are you sure? I am taking Rylan so you can work on your essay questions.”
“Babe, I can watch him. You had this planned for a while before I planned on even doing those classes. Go have fun.”
“OK. I owe you.”
“That sounds good to me. I will think of something good.”
“I love you.”
“I love you too.”
Kiss
We had some great communication on that one. Melissa got to have a mommy break and go meet some former coworkers. I got to play with my son for two hours instead of work on my essay questions. That sounds like a very good tradeoff to me. I knew exactly what I was doing when we had that teamwork of who was going to take of Rylan. “Happy wife, happy life.”
Real Dad Blog Version: Wife wanted to go to happy hour. We had some teamwork to make it work.
Odds and ends: I saw the movie Revolutionary Road. It was a very slow movie. I do not recommend it
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I love the last line, happy wife, happy life – and your enthusiasm of getting to spend quality time with Rylan over any work you might have gotten done is so refreshing.
Team work like that can be rare these days, that is how my wife and I plan on handling situations like these. It is all give and take!