I went over to my homegirl’s house the other day so she could braid my hair for me and we could sit back and chop it up. I haven’t saw her in a long time with us both having kids and businesses and social distancing. So we were overdue for a girl talk session

She has two kids her son is 7 and her daughter is 1. A nice age gap but still both young and need to be tended to. So in the middle of her braiding baby girl starts fussing. First she’s wet then a little time goes by she’s hungry.

Keep in mind this is my friend not just someone I’m paying to do my hair so I’m a mom too I’m like girl do what you gotta do I know how this multitasking mommy life go. We really gotta do everything.

So as I’m expecting her to do what mothers gotta do, she picks up the phone and calls their dad who had just left out to the store and asked him to come back and get them so she wouldn’t have to be doing too many things at once

He said ok I’m omw and was in the door no later than 10 minutes. He dressed the kids and took them both out so she could finish without interruptions and we could have girl talk without kids ears in the room.

It was at the moment watching them work as a team did I really understand the importance of having a partner in your home. The importance of not just having kids but building a family.

I’m so used to being surrounded by toxic representations of love that I half way expected him to tell her “no he’s busy” or for it to lead to an argument like it would have if it was my situation. It’s such a different thing when you have a child with someone who works with you.

Once he took the kids out she got finished with my hair and ordered food for him for dinner so he could eat when he got back home since my hair took up a lot of time, she didn’t have time to cook him dinner but she was making sure her man ate.

One partner making sure the kids are straight and their partner isn’t overworked. The other partner securing the bag but making sure the family is fed at the same time. The communication. The teamwork. The love. I really wasn’t tryna leave I coulda studied them all day

I left happy to know it’s out there. To see it in pictures is one thing. To watch two ppl in action working together is another. And man if that ain’t the most beautiful shit I witnessed all week. May the person you choose as your life partner be your PARTNER in everything fr

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