Being a stay-at-home mom might seem like a cakewalk, but any parent who has been left to look after the kids on their own knows how difficult a job it really is.
Brad Kearns never understood why his wife Sarah always joked about wanting to be the ‘dad‘ and getting to leave the house to go to work, but that’s because he never understood that being a stay-at-home mom meant being a skilled negotiator, a chef, a maid, a chauffeur, and a rule enforcer among many other things.
However, when Sarah ended up in the hospital because of liver failure, Brad was forced to leave work and take care of their two-year-old and six-week-old sons.
“It all started yesterday when I had to rush out of work. Because I’m a dad… And dads get respite for 40+ hours per week under the socially acceptable provisor ‘supporting the family’ while mum continues doing what women seem to so effortlessly do,” Brad wrote in a post to Facebook that has since gone viral.
“‘My liver has failed’ read the text message from Sarah. And that’s when I became the mum. It’s now been 24 hours…” Brad went on to detail the hilarious disaster that was the rest of the night, which included 2-minute noodles for dinner and a trashed living room.
“As the night rolls on and my patience wears thin; I reduce myself to keeping Knox quiet by allowing him to place stickers on my (very hairy) legs,” he wrote. “He was being quiet… ‘It’s okay, I can shave them off in the morning’ was the thought. ‘Just don’t wake Finn.'”
By the next morning, Brad was going delirious after his 6-week-old kept him up all night, but knew he was defeated when he heard a knock on the door from his mother-in-law. “So there I was; Unshaven, hair a mess, wearing the pants and socks from the day before and a hoodie covering up the fact I had no shirt on. Hadn’t showered, not yet brushed my teeth, Knox comes running out in his sleeping bag asking for a new Yoghurt muesli bar to be opened.”
“I open the door to her to reveal the fact that knox’s noodles were still in a bowl on the table, stickers stuck to the goddamn lounge, the house an absolute mess. It was in that moment I knew I was defeated. It was also in that moment I knew she knew I knew I was defeated. That was only 16 hours of being a mum. And I failed,” Brad wrote.
Despite his struggles, Brad was happy to hear Sarah was loving the updates as she heals in the hospital, and welcomed the hilarious distraction. “So although I can’t be there while I’m here with the boys at least I know it’s helping a bit,” Brad said.
Read this dad’s entire post here to see how the rest of his night went when he became ‘mum’ for the night.
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[Featured image credit: Facebook/Brad Kearns]
Dad Realizes How Hard Mom’s Job Is After Taking Care Of The Kids For Just One Day is an article from: LifeDaily