ying and yang

i was thinking last night, as i was feeding annie and dan was cleaning the house, about our roles.

our roles as parents.

our roles around the house.

our roles as partners.

what occurred to me is that we really don't have roles.

sure i am mom and he is dad...but when it comes to everything else we are equal.

even though i may not go to an office all day or bring home a paycheck, dan sees us as equals. he knows just how hard my job can be and that a lot is riding on whether or not i succeed at it. i may not be running a company like he is...but i am raising our children and in his eyes that's even more important.

i have to say we do make a pretty darn good team. i truly am the ying to his yang in some perspectives.

let's take a look at a typical evening in our house, shall we?

dan usually arrives home from work around 6...6:30 at the latest. on the nights he's able to have dinner with us (maybe just 2 or 3 nights a week...he is in high demand when it comes to business trips & dinners!) i am usually finishing up some sort of dinner. he'll change into his sweats and we'll eat.

after dinner dan always does the dishes and will pick up the house while i give the girls a bath. this is the perfect example of us ying'ing and yang'ing. i would much rather bathe all 4 kids and get them in their pj's than clean the house. i suck at it and he is like flipping mary poppins! cleaning is kind of his happy place. after a long (usually 10 hour) day at the office he actually enjoys zoning out and doing mindless chores.

did I hit the jackpot or what?!?

after baths and pj's he will then take all 3 big girls upstairs and put them to bed. here is yet another example. he loves taking the big girls whereas I love the babies. when it comes to the newborns that is all me.

by the time all four are asleep we both collapse on the couch and zone out to whatever tv series we are currently obsessed with. (currently orange is the new black)

i'm sure none of you really care about our day to day life, but i just have to document this time in our lives. i always want to remind myself how extremely lucky i am to have a partner who works so hard all day and still shares the household and parenting responsibilities when he comes home.

he could easily come home and crash on the couch. but we all know...

that's just not dan!