- Laundry
- 2 hours a day looking for shit I can't find in this mess
- 20 minutes explaining to the boy why chips don't count as breakfast when fried potatoes do
- Another 20 convincing him that he can not spend another whole day in nothing but underwear
- 1 hour looking for my family's shit that they can't find in this mess
- PTA duties that I've been flaking on (I'm the Labels for Education and Box Tops coordinator, now also PTA historian)
- Laundry
- 3 hours arguing with my children
- 3 more hours repeating myself
- 1 hour looking around at the mess and wondering where to start
- 10 hours procrastinating
- 2 hours walking dogs and picking up poop
- 30 minutes in the bathroom, pretending to poop so they'll leave me alone
- Two words: SOCCER SEASON
- 30 minutes, 4 times a day, trying to decide what to make for dinner.
- FACEBOOK.
- 30 minutes looking for matching socks.
- Laundry
- 15 minutes screaming for someone to bring me a roll of toilet paper
- 93 minutes trying to get my kids to brush their teeth
- Another 37 trying to convince the 9 year old to stop talking so he can fall asleep
- Once school starts back up there will be 5 hours and 24 minutes spent fighting my child to do his 30 minutes of homework
- 2 hours of reading in 5 minute spurts between all the rest of this crap (current book: book 5 of Game of Thrones)
I know there's more but I gotta, you know, go find something to do with all my free time...
There are some days when I walk through the door at the end of the day and my wife looks like she was put in a potato sack and beat for the entire day, lol. I'm reminded on the weekends of how tough staying at home with small kids is. I know it's something she's always wanted to do, and she does a great job, but until people have lived it, it's just never as hard as they think. I think it will also help build a stronger relationship between her and the girls. Awesome post!
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