Updated: Oct. 18, 2023
Raising children, managing adult responsibilities, and maintaining a marriage simultaneously can be incredibly challenging. My partner and I often lament how fleeting our breaks from the chaos are, leaving us feeling like we’re endlessly digging ourselves out. It’s like driving on a humid highway where bugs keep splattering on the windshield. Just as we manage to wipe away a couple of the messiest ones, more come crashing in, making it hard to see the road ahead clearly.
The significant issues—like receiving concerning reports from teachers about your child’s declining reading skills, dealing with medical tests for your little one’s persistent stomach pains, haggling with insurance over damage claims, or figuring out how much to save for therapy alongside college funds—seem to hit us all at once.
You might think that when minor issues arise, we’d appreciate them as easily solvable problems. “I may not have a detailed plan to improve my child’s reading, but at least I can change that light bulb!” you might imagine saying.
However, my partner and I have discovered that we are so overwhelmed with tackling the major challenges that we tend to overlook the smaller annoyances, letting them linger like pesky gnats on our metaphorical windshield.
So instead, we choose to laugh. If we can’t control the big issues, we might as well find humor in the little ones that we decide to ignore.
Take, for instance, the black plastic switch on my partner’s bedside lamp that has been missing for four years. The worst-case scenario? He reads in the dark. Best case? I hand him my lamp’s switch to use, and we repeat the process to turn everything off. Ridiculous, right?
Or consider our coffee machine, which recently lost its essential carafe. Desperate for caffeine, I broke our “don’t fix easy things” rule and ordered a replacement from my phone while cleaning up the glass shards. It arrived two sizes too small, so now we prop it up with a knife or a wooden spoon each morning to make it work. Our coffee-making process resembles a DIY project gone wrong!
I won’t even get into how many times I had to leap over the laser trigger of our garage door because my car remote broke.
The point is, there’s comedy in our chaos, and it keeps the atmosphere lively. Each time I use a kitchen utensil to support our coffee maker, I can’t wait to share it with my partner. We chuckle over the absurdity of our situation, turning mishaps into funny stories. Sometimes, we even laugh until we’re delirious. After all, who else would prop up a coffee pot with a knife in a house full of kids?
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In summary, while life with kids and a partner can be chaotic, finding humor in the everyday struggles can make the journey much more enjoyable. Embracing the absurdities helps us maintain our sanity and strengthens our bond as a couple.