They are our kids and I went away for work for 1 day. When I got back late last night my H was fed up that I didn't say thank you to him for having the kids. His point was that he had to take time off work to get them from school and do the afternoon stuff.
My reason for not thanking him was I work part time hours so we all benefit from having someone running the home and so the kids can come home from school each day, but I don't expect anyone to thank me for doing those things, or incidentally for not working full time and putting us all under more pressure.