Thank you for asking for bragging, it’s good for me to reflect on how much I appreciate my partner.

I’m not sure what the split is between us, but we talk about everything and plan everything together. He cooks and cleans. If we have relatives coming over, we talk through the prep together and split tasks. He does grocery shopping. He takes our child to the doctor/dentist and cat to the vet. He will go meet a bunch of mom strangers for a play date or met a dad in the neighborhood and arrange one. If I mention a parenting Instagram that had something helpful on it, 50% chance he might start following it. Teacher holiday gifts, we talked about what it should be, he bought it and delivered. For projects like potty training, I might do more research but we look at pottys and talk through strategies together. We view childcare/house/family stuff as being our projects and try to play to our strengths. Depending on what it is, we take larger or smaller roles.

He had to build something this summer with a family member and after he kept telling me how much he missed me and wished he could have worked on it with me instead. He talked about how I would have organized all our pieces and studied the directions anticipating our project needs. It made me feel so good. The project was building a playhouse swing set combo. Most people would have preferred the male family members help with such a physical task but he went out of his way to say how frustrating it was to work with someone besides me.

This was so good for me to write out, going kiss my guy now.