Stay at home dad thread

Curious how many TWers are stay at home dads. Check in here!

 

I'm not one but good to see you Mike!! Its been a long time!! Hows parenting??

 

You are a stay at home dad AND you have a tacoma......living the life

 

Holy crap, you changed your name LOL...

Good here! Kiddo doing well...! How are you?

 

I still work as a consultant which means that I work on my schedule and when I feel like it... (For now at least)

 

Haha yeah I changed it a while back and no one even knows its me anymore its kind of funny. Glad to hear the kids doing good...how old is he how?

I'm good!! Just moved into a new place a couple weeks ago...firefighting is going well and going to my best friends wedding in Cali next week!!

 

Does being retired and taking my 14yo son to and from school count.

 

yes, yes it does

 

LOL... nice... *she is 3.5 now... lots of fun lately

 

I stay home with my three turning four this weekend little guy. I'm Mr Mom in our house. For sure the best times in my life are the days teaching my little guy! Sometimes a little stressful, but always rewarding!

 

nice..

 

So what does your day look like if at home all day and how does the wife handle this?

I'm not sure I could handle being at home all day. Both my kids are in school so its not like they would keep me busy, but I could see how toddlers could. Other than that there’s cleaning the house and perhaps cooking meals. Cleaning would only be an occasional thing and cooking wouldn't be an all day event, so where’s the time go?

For those guys that do this and do it well, big props from be no doubt, just interested in what you do to fill the day and not go crazy.

 

Mine is in "mothers day out" for 5 hours a day which lets me do stuff to the truck or house. I typically get the kid ready for school, take her in and then pick her up. After that we usually play blocks or color or work on tracing letters. I bought her a tracing book a couple weeks ago and started doing that.

All in all it's not so bad... It's fun hanging out with the kiddo

 

i wish..lucky..

 

Oops my bad for some reason I thought you had a son. Wow shes already 3.5 years old?!! I still remember when you told me your wife was pregos!! Dang time sure does fly brotha!!

 

no worries... ya it goes pretty fast...

 

OP, how old are your kids? I've got three, 25, 12 and 4. And a granddaughter that's 7!
The four year old wasn't planned(neither was the 25), and just the way life worked out for us.
Like I said before, these are the best times, hanging out with my son all day, then getting his sister from school, and running her around for soccer. Financially it's tough, but you can't have it all! When I was working, I was gone 12-14 hours a day, 5 days a week, and I missed out on so many things, but I was making great money. Now I have time but little money.
My wife isn't as psyched as I am.

 

LOL... mine is 3.5 now. My wife isn't psyched either.... but I make enough $$ consulting for the time being and she is a shrink so we're doing OK...

 

So I'm assuming shes a preschooler?