10. You get all the time with your kids that you thought you were missing out on.
9. Your wife’s happily vindictive grin when 4 p.m. rolls around and you collapse on the couch in exhaustion while the boys climb on you, shrieking, still with another three hours of energy.
8. Time to complete all the household projects you were too tired to complete on the weekends. (Provided your wife’s workload allows.)
7. No more meetings.
6. No more getting up at 4:45 a.m. This means you’re not in bed at 9 p.m. anymore, and you and your wife can do husband-and-wife things. Like…
5. You can watch all the movies and TV-to-DVD shows you’ve been missing out on.
4. Did I mention no more meetings?
3. You actually make it easier for your wife to be self-employed, because you’re not spending valuable cash on gas, coffee, or work clothes.
2. You can finally read all the books your wife has been telling you you would love.
1. You’re writing again. Fiction. Good fiction. Stuff your wife thinks will get published. If she can find the time to help you do it!
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I Love this, Christa! I hope the transition is going well for all of you. Enjoy this cherished time with your hubby and your boys. You all deserve it!
So far so good, sounds like! Good point about not having to spend money on gas, coffee, and work clothes. You should also look into getting your car insurance reduced, now that neither of you is commuting over ten miles to work. Good luck with this adventure!
woohoo!!! It’s all good, sounds like.
I’m just grateful I don’t have to deal with the Witching Hour alone anymore. LOL Seriously, now that I’m working more? I’m happier, and I think the kids see it. I love being able to interact with them still (instead of missing them at a workplace rife with politics) but also focus on my job. And I’ve found we can do more. Rain Dog can watch Puck while I take Hamlet swimming, for instance. So far so good, just keep fingers crossed for us!!
The Witching Hour, I *love* it!!! As the kids get older, it’s less of a Witching Hour, but I agree, that time between 4:00 pm and bedtime — I don’t know what it is, but every kid in the world has *some* kind of a meltdown right then. (I did, too, when I was small.) One reason that Sesame Street and the Electric Company were such a godsend at that time of day…
Hi, Christa. I miss you.
Aww Patti, I miss you too. Hugs! Now that I am a bit more settled, I hope to be back here more often. It’s been a crazy 8 or 10 weeks or however long. But I landed what I think are 2 new clients this week and started a new blog that is getting good feedback, so things would seem to be on their way. Maybe will even get to work on some fiction? Soon? I hope?