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I wish I could agree with you. I wish I could say that marriage and parenting and life is so black and white and cut and dry and as simple as this. But it isn’t.As a mom, with 6 kids, I would love to say that SAHMs have all of the time in the world to get every household chore done, while trying to keep 6 tiny humans fed, bathed, safe, entertained, and alive, while also making sure that the bills get paid, the doctors and dentist appointments and grocery shopping, and oil changes, and play dates and hair cuts and birthday parties and carpool and field trips all get attended to. On top of this, wouldn’t it be great if your wife had dinner made, had the kitchen cleaned up, and looked beautiful and was stress-free when you walked in the door at 6PM?I wish it was all easy and cut and dry like this. Let me look at how my week has been so far. My husband works a normal office job. I have 6 kids; 17-8.Mon – I get the kids out the door and get home around 8AM. I put the 3 dogs out, and make my first sweep of the downstairs. I do this every single morning; grabbing dirty clothes and dishes from all over the house that were used from 11PM and 7:30 AM. I grab hair products off of counters, pick up wet towels, toss make-up back in drawers. I push the coffee pot back into place, put the toaster away, wipe off counters, rinse cereal bowls, and start a load of laundry. I then spend 45 minutes on hold with the cable company. I get emails from teachers/coaches/clubs about changes to this week’s schedule. A child or two text me about stuff forgotten at home. Today, my son needed me to bring in cooked hot dogs for a speech on the FDA. I run to the store, grab hot dogs and run home to cook them. It is 11. I am at the high school by 11:45, hot dogs in tow. The secretary talks to me for a bit, and I head home. I get a reminder group text about the outdoor camp, and a new clothing requirement because of unplanned low temps. I search the house for my 6th graders packing list that he squirreled away. I flip the laundry. I sit down at the computer and see if any soccer emails have come through on Teamsnap. The soccer schedule came out for the tournament this weekend. I decide we should get a hotel room and I book it for Saturday night. My alarm is going off on my phone, signaling 2:45. I head out the door to start carpool. I race to get #6, then leave for #4. #5 has Girls on the Run. I take #4 home to get his hidden packing list. We then head to the store. We are there for an hour, so head straight back to school to get #5 by 5pm. I take #4-6 home and #4 packs for soccer, and I bark orders at #1-3 to get ready for their game. I had made a chicken tortilla soup for everyone in the crockpot so they can eat and get warm for a bitter cold soccer game. I leave with #4 for practice and come home to get everyone who remains. We head to the high school for the #1-3’s varsity soccer game. I leave at halftime to get #4 from practice and am at home by 7:45 PM. I end up talking to my dad for the first time in over a month, while hiding away from interruptions in the car, in the driveway. We go over homework, flip laundry, feed and crate dogs and are in bed early, by 11pm.That is one day. Tuesday, I have 2 more kids with PM soccer practice and another varsity game for the 3 oldest. I have 3 kids to take to Urgent Care in the AM so they can get on meds and get a steroid shot so they can still go to school. A coach calls and tells me that me that kicking scholarship offers might start to come in soon for my #1 son from these schools, and I jot them down and race to the computer. I look at their locations, their degree offerings, their costs. I look at their reputations and check youtube for videos of interviews of students. There is an email from my #4s math teacher – he needs a tutor. I add that to my list of places to call while I am in carpool. I had big plans to start dinner before the game so they can eat, but #6 is spacing out and won’t stop changing outfits. He won’t eat which probably means that I will have to take him in for antibiotics too. Tamiflu for the whole family then. I run him into Walgreens, and pick up last minute items for #4’s camp trip, water bottles for me and my friend, and gatorades for the 2 at soccer and the 3 at their soccer game. It rains through most of the game, and we are all soaking wet. The older boys have a bunch of homework, and we go through a list of missing assignments with #1 and #4 from their illnesses. Dinner will not be fabulous, but my #4 picked it out, as he leaves tomorrow for camp – Mac and Cheese and white meat turkey dogs. Ugh. Bed time is after midnight for me and again, I will still start waking up at 5:30, making sure that AM workouts are done, PT appointments are made for the kid with the ACL tear, and the super early camp drop off is made.On Wednesday, I have a kid going to camp, my #2 kid is home sick, and I have a full prison costume to make and costume accessories to shop for, for #3. I leave at 9:30 and get home at 1:30 – just in time to bring the sick #2 a fountain sprite, just like he asked. I get #6 from school, then drive all the way to the elementary school, only to realize that of course #4 is not there, he is at camp, and #5 still has an hour and a half of Girls on the Run. I go home and try to pick up the living room and quickly start coughing. I crash next to the sick #2 and he asks me about our adoption of #6, while watching Kung Phu Panda 2. I leave to get #5 from GOTR, and my husband comes home and toasts the pancakes we cooked Sunday afternoon. Wednesday night is youth group night for the high schoolers so after I drop off the only one allowed to go (#3), my husband and I grab a few street tacos, and run to GNC to get some more protein shake mixes for #1-3. We discuss grades, college options, our weekend schedule that includes 5 soccer games, a soccer tournament, softball practice, and prom. When I get home at 9PM, I will finish a movie that I was watching with the teens about European UN medical doctors in Sierra Leone and the atrocities they saw. I will fall asleep talking to my husband at 1am – discussing the fact that a million years ago, I was a social worker who dreamed of being a missionary, when I graduated from college, and I have done very little with that for any good length of time since I graduated. Now my kids are getting older and I’ll need to start working soon but I have no idea who I am outside of the house or what I am actually able to do. Panic sets in and I dream of field offices and orphans and a mountain of laundry waiting for downstairs.Thursday will be the first day of the week where I will be at home for 5 hours straight, and I will spend the day purging mail, folding laundry that I have been flipping in my spare time, clean sweeping rooms in hopes of getting a dinner in a pressure cooker started. I will finish sweeping the pile in the living room that I started the night before. And then I see your question pop up on my Quora notification. It is a great question. I picture a mom much like me when I was just starting out; 2-3 kids maybe. She has super high standards for herself, and her kids are young, so her husband, like mine, thinks that maybe she is not doing enough.I remember my husband walking in the house one night – I had a kid on my hip, and two fighting on the floor in the kitchen, where I was burning dinner. There was a smell in the laundry room from old clothes in the washer all day. There were toys and garbage everywhere. Just stuff. And he walked in the door, and it was like he was there to rescue me from my day. I had looked forward to him saving me from this exhausting monotony ALL DAY LONG. Freedom. He looked at me, disgusted. There was no compassion, just disbelieve. A piece of me broke. I started crying, just sobbing. I cannot be a maid day in and day out, yelling at the kids to clean their messes, and be a ref, and a chef, and a chauffer, and a gardener, and an educator, and give my children the attention they deserved. I was killing myself trying to do it all perfectly. And when I would get frustrated because I cleaned the living room, and then the kids destroyed the living room, I would start yelling at my kids instead of having fun with them. Instead of raising my kids, I was turning into the clean house nazi tyrant so that my husband would be happy when he got home.It was like my husband morphed into this task master who would come home and approve my work, like he was my boss. And if I did not have it all done, he would wait for his food, while playing on his phone, while I kept working. It had to end.So, I got a housekeeper with my birthday money, just for the day. I did not tell my husband beforehand. She spent 6 hours cleaning the whole downstairs while I was at the zoo with the 3 toddlers. I made dinner when I got home and started a load of laundry. When he came, he had the same unimpressed look. I sat him down and gave him a list of what the lady cleaned and how long it took her. I explained that is cost $120 to have a professional do all of those tasks and it took her 6 hours, but no laundry was done, and no dinner was made, no shopping or appointments were attended to and no kids were taken care of. If a professional cannot impress him and do all of that, then neither could I.I gave him a list of things that I would try to do each day – alternating rooms. I used the FlyLady’s cleaning guides, and altered them to fit our schedules and kids. I highlighted what he needed to do at home, and what I would do. If he was going to kick back at 5PM, then so would I. If he wanted to help and be apart of this family unit that the kids and I had, then we could work together and we could actually be a couple. I think he was shocked and dumbfounded. Slowly but surely, he started offering to help, and then just started taking initiative. I am not sure what would happen if we both had jobs, but I am sure that it would have to be a partnership - taking into consideration the strengths, weaknesses, and passions of each spouse. This outlook saved our marriage, and my sanity and our family culture. Set chores are OK, and set responsibilities are great if they are done and shared in loved and in partnership. If they are not, then it is just a spouse trying to hold something over their supposed loved one, and that marriage will be devoid of true love and growth and openness.

For World Cup and international games, both The Atlantic Crossing and Fado draw large crowds. Atlantic Crossing also used to do a full English breakfast; not sure if that’s still true. Fado can get extremely packed and a bit…boisterous, depending on the game. There’s a thread on Yelp listing other sports bars popular for soccer events, but the aforementioned two are the only ones I have personal experience with.Best Soccer bars in Seattle, WA

TOP 5 BEST FOOTBALL/ SOCCER GAMES FOR ANDROID1. Stickman Soccer - This is a more unusual soccer game but will provide hours of soccer gameplay in a very quick and action packed manner. As long as you don’t mind that none of our favorite players are on offer, then this is a fun game.Link download APK file: Download Full Stickman Soccer 2.8 APK | Full APK download, APK GAMES & APPS2. First Touch Soccer 2015 - is a popular option for those looking for a break away from FIFA. It has a similar style of gameplay and action, so it will be familiar not to mention, you can take your favorite club to the highest levelLink download APK file: Download Full First Touch Soccer 2015 2.09 APK | Full APK download, APK GAMES & APPS3. Dream League Soccer - is all about the dream…the dream team. Use your gameplay experience and your knowledge to put together the best dream team you canLink download APK file: Download Full Dream League Soccer 2.07 APK | Full APK download, APK GAMES & APPS4. Soccer Stars - is a lot less realistic than most of the games on this list. But don’t let that fool you. This is still soccer, albeit, on a reduced scale, and with tokens instead of real-life animations. Still plenty of fun thoughLink download APK file: Download Full Soccer Stars 3.2.1 APK | Full APK download, APK GAMES & APPS5. Score! World Goals - a little bit different to all the rest, but is an interesting game for those who want something a little bit different. This one will allow you to recreate many famous goals and is much more puzzle than action based.Link download APK file: Download Full Score! World Goals 2.75 APK | Full APK download, APK GAMES & APPS