Half Changed World posted this:
- with a request for captions. My comment was "I don't have a pithy caption - but my immediate thought when I saw the cartoon was "holy shit, that was us!" My husband and I - since our daughter was born - each work part-time schedules so we can each be home a couple days / week. Our weeks have always had a lot of moving pieces - him, me, one day or so of daycare, activities like swimming or gymnastics. While I have always felt lucky that we share parenting and wouldn't want it any other way, it does involve a lot of juggling and hand-offs."
Funny - I had just been thinking about this today. I was on the way from the Y to Maia's to drop Kid off there for a playdate. (Really it was Rachel throwing me a lifeline - Guy is on day 8 of a 13-day trip to Japan - she assumed I could do with a couple hours "off" and offered to take Kid for the afternoon. Love her!) Kid asked if it would Maia's mom or dad home for the playdate. It occurred to me that Kid has no idea that in many, if not - still - most, houses it is the mom at home during the day every day while the dad goes to work. In her world, dad stays home a few days and mom stays home a few days. Except of course when dad is in Japan. In which case mom stays home, working on the computer, continuously saying "five more minutes, please be patient."
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