Mom of 9, 6, 4, and 3-year-old kids bakes 150 cookies for school events, husband demands she make him extra: 'He told me a few more shouldn't be hard'

After baking dozens and dozens of cookies, this Mom wasn't thrilled that her husband suddenly wanted his own batch. 

Valentine's Day can be so cute if you have kids! 

Many parents love to do arts and crafts with their kids to create homemade decorations. Others do a bunch of baking and let the children decorate cupcakes or cookies. 

Some parents also let their kids pick out those packs of Valentine's Day cards, which sometimes come with lollipops or other candies to attach onto them, which they can then give to all their classmates. It's a very sweet time of year, all puns intended!

This Mom of 4 young children is also a teacher, and she has really overbooked herself. She accidentally agreed to make cookies for all 4 kids' classes, plus a bake sale. Suffice it to say her kitchen is a one-woman bakery right now!

However, her husband wandered into the kitchen and kind of cluelessly started badgering her with questions. And uh, it didn't go smoothly for him from there on.

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    Loving mom kisses baby boy on the cheek while holding him in the air, behind her are red, pink and white heart-shaped Valentine's Day cookies.
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    Loving mom kisses baby boy on the cheek while holding him in the air, behind her are red, pink and white heart-shaped Valentine's Day cookies.

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    Am I the a*sh*le for snapping at my husband in front of the kids?

    My husband and I have 4 kids (9, 6, 4, 3). He works as an aerospace engineer and I mostly stay home with the kids and work as an infant and toddler
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    teacher 10 hours a week. All 4 of my kids have Valentine's Day parties that I'm making cookies for.
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    My 9 year old has 28 kids in her class, my 6 year old has 24, 4 year old has 18, and 3 year old has 12. Additionally, my oldest's school has a bake sale
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    today that I also signed up for because I got the dates wrong, so they're getting 3 dozen of a different type of cookie.
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    Last night my husband saw me working on the cookies and asked me to set aside a couple for his office.
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    I told him that between the class parties, bake sale, and teacher gifts, I'm making nearly 150 cookies so his office is going to have to wait. He told
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    me a few more shouldn't be that hard, especially considering I'm using a box mix for the class party and teacher cookies. I told him that I will
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    not be making any more cookies so either he waits until next week or he goes down to Walmart, gets all of his ingredients, and bakes them himself.
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    Now he's upset that I snapped at him over a cookie in front of the kids so I'm wondering if I
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    was the ass for telling him to wait or make it himself in front of the kids
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  • This husband probably didn't mean anything by his requests for snacks, but he's also not being very kind towards his wife. She's doing so much work already, and he's devaluing just how much effort goes into baking things. 

    She's right — he should go shop for all the ingredients, come home, preheat the oven, mix everything together, put it on a cookie tray, bake it, put everything in a cute container, and then wash all the dishes and surfaces. I mean, if it's so effortless to do that, he can go ahead and do it! 

    I will say that making box cookies and cakes is actually really easy. It's usually like, the box mix, an egg or 2, some oil, and some water — mix and pop it in the oven. Basic household staples, really. The husband basically just chose the wrongest time possible to request this. 

    Luckily, he's about to learn how easy it is to whip up a batch of box cookies to take to his office. His wife certainly won't be doing it — by that point, hopefully she'll be resting somewhere with her feet up while he wrangles the children and bakes his own cookies. 

    I think to make up for his little blunder, though, he should do something nice for his wife — maybe he could even get the kids involved. She's probably sick of cookies by now, but he and the kids could make her a nice dinner, maybe buy her some flowers, or make her some cute crafts. No wife wants a man-child husband who's basically her 5th child, so let's hope this guy steps up and acts like a caring father and husband. 

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    People did not hold back with their criticisms, either

    fromh ey Nta! I'll rephrase your hubs request. "Oh, you're making a shit ton of cookies. Make more!" Now do you see how you could not possibly be the AH!
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    They're insisting that this husband can and should be making his own treats. 

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    momlv Nta. "Hello wife who is overwhelmed working tirelessly for our children, work harder and provide the same labor for me, a functioning adult who is not helping you with project for children who are also mine" that's how stupid he sounds.
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    manidekanymore That's 150 cookies! He can grab a package of Oreos on his way to work. The entitlement of asking you to add more to that insane workload is ridiculous.
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    Frosty_Win_9150 Four kids under 10 and you're baking that much?? Respectfully, he can survive. one week without homemade treats. I don't think the kids were traumatized by seeing mom set a boundary.
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    The_kingslayer1 NTA I'm pretty sure your snapping back came from stress. I can't imagine baking that amount of cookies.
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    Loving mom kisses baby boy on the cheek while holding him up in the air while both smile. 

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