This past week gave me a fresh appreciation for single parents.
My wife and I are both business owners, and we're a pretty solid team. I'm blessed at that. We each got very sick at different times this week, taking the team down hard and fast. When one of us was under the weather, the other was carrying the whole load...multiple businesses, a family, a busy young child, the dogs (3 and 17), and everything else that comes with keeping a household moving.
It was...a lot, to put it frankly. It made me think about the people who do that every day without someone to hand things off to. Someone to carry the load. Someone to offer a moment of reprieve. Someone to just say, "I got you".
If you're a single parent doing your best to keep the lights on, raise good kids, and make it to tomorrow, I hope people tell you they're proud of you once in a while. You deserve more credit than you probably get. You are the real heroes.
-Bryant