This Woman's Post About Making Sacrifices as a Parent Will Speak Volumes to All Moms
Most parents can think of a time when they were a little fed up with all of the responsibilities of everyday life — heck, your time may be right now. Between making dinners, reading stories, and giving baths, life with littles can be exhausting. Katie Spence Pugh was starting to feel this exhaustion, so she reached out to her husband, a farmer who works long hours, to tell him she was tired and feeling a bit resentful.
"I wanted him to know that I was feeling fed up with how much he works and with all that I have to do everyday by myself. . . . Rather than complain, he said he was sorry I was tired and felt that way," she wrote in a post on Instagram accompanying a photo of her husband eating dinner while their daughter sat on the table.
". . . And it hit me. Do I wish that we saw him more than an hour or so a day? Yes. But, the love he has for his craft is something to envy. This is a man who is working to uphold four generations of blood, sweat, and tears and [is] showing his children the value of hard work and discipline." Pugh continues her post with a grand realization that she isn't the only one making sacrifices for her family.
"So while I felt frustrated, I really should have felt thankful. I got to sit down to dinner and hear all the stories from the day with the kids. I got to give them a bath and hear their squeals and giggles. I got to snuggle and love on them for three hours more than he did. He is the one sacrificing, not me."
Read her full post above.