A Not-So-Easy Task

A young mother left her two preschool children for the day in the care of their less experienced father on his day off from work.  At the end of the day, she returned home to find her husband exhausted from a day with his children but trying to hide the fact.

The mother gently asked her husband: "Did everything go okay?"

The father answered, "Oh, sure, it was fine."

"Did you have any trouble?" she explored.

"Just a couple of times the kids were a bit unmanageable."

"And when did these episodes take place?"

Her husband confessed, "The first time was the first four hours after you left, and the second was the five hours before you returned."

- The Pastor's Story File (Saratoga Press, May 1994)