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 [1]. 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 [2] 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 [3] 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.