Hello my dear Hivers of the @weekendexperiences community! How's your weekend? I hope you're all well and safe.
For this week’s challenge, I'd like to make an entry about if I could switch with someone for a weekend. For this challenge I would like to switch with my husband.
Why? Well, just recently, I overheard a small but striking comment that got me thinking. He said something about me “always being on a day off,” which honestly left me confused.
I mean, I work five days a week, teaching for 40 hours in school and when I get home, I change “career” again as a full-time mother. Of course, he takes care of our 4-month-old baby boy while I’m at work, and I truly appreciate that.
But when weekends come, I help him with the chores, especially the laundry, and I mostly take care of our two kids.
Then earlier this morning, our son woke up early, so I gently woke my husband just to play with me and our children and to my surprise, he said, 'It’s my day off'.
I was caught off guard. It made me wonder is it just me, or did that mean I shouldn’t disturb him at all this day? Because if that’s the case, am I not entitled to a rest too?
Don’t get me wrong. I know taking care of a baby is no easy feat and I respect how he handles it. But as a working mom, juggling school duties by day and motherhood by night, I also get exhausted.
He actually gets more enough sleep than I do since I’m the one who mixes our baby’s formula several times during the night. Sometimes 3 or 4 times between midnight and morning.
So yes, if given a chance, I’d love to switch places with my husband for a weekend not to compete, but to understand each other’s exhaustion and effort more deeply.
I love my husband of course that's why I want to understand him. This challenge came at the perfect time because it helped me reflect and express something that’s been sitting in my mind since morning.
That’s all for today. Thanks for reading this far. Til my next post!
Note: Lead photo is edited in Canva.