Any other Mr Moms?

I work weekends making bullets and the wife works during the week. Yeeeah, kinda shitty for now....
Our 7 year olds in school during the week and I watch our 2 month old son on my days off.

Anyone else in the same boat? I can say I am TRULY learning the meaning of time management! How the hell do they(women), get anything done?!

Wifey dearest goes to work in downtown Sleezattle at like dark O'clock.
Alam for me goes off at 0720.. I roust the squirmy girls up and feed them brekie and comb their hair and we walk to school to be there at 0830.
Then I go do mail, phone in orders and then go make chips, drop off things, do some shopping, get back at 15.15 to pick up the squirmy-girls, go home make some afternoon snack--often yummy noodles, and do my best
Mr. Gumby imitation to intimidate them into confessing if they have homework, and then poke and tickle them till we're all giggling and squeling.....Then wifey gets home about 6ish, and often, like last night, down to the machine shop to make parts, last night to 11 is , got home at 23.17, had some grub, and read till 12.40 or so.
Approx 17 hour day..

But some days i get lazy and I am old, so i only work half day: 12 hours.

Dear wifey was going to University after we were married and had Squirmy Girl No 1 Annoushka and continued (with her smarty pants 3.94 GPA) till she got her degree and I , with amazingly generous help for he Auntie 4 who came up from Hong Kong for a couple of 4-5 months visits, watched over her and Squirmy Girl No.2, Natasha, and have been the mainly at home guy since we tried daycare and found it obscenely expensive and the girls pick up and stuff instantly (like " I'M BORED!, Never before or since has she said that).. Only time its been a bit difficult has been when I have been carved up and I trialing soaked bloody bandages behind as a reel around like the Mummy, an there has been what? 7 operations in last 4 years (all ancient long neglected broken and stove in skeletal injuries---except the emergency appendectomy and the broken leg earlier this year)
Still I would not trade anything for the time since we met.
Like I just had a umbilical hernia on the 11th (when was that?), day afterwe moved half the furniture and paint half the place and next day, moved it back and painted the rest. Then this weekend we painted the downstairs bathroom and laundry area and got some new rugs and I moved the washer dry away and stripped the floors of old wax and rewaxed--4 coats--the floor..
Wifey comes in today with BIG smile and gives me big hug "We did it".

That one word there WE, thats how we have done it..
And 17 hour daze!

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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Not really right now ,but back in 2002 when the gun shop I worked at closed its doors, I played mr.mom for a couple years and took care of our 2 year old boy.
Wifey was making pretty good $ back then and we had a very bad injury happen to the kid at daycare about that time..we never let anyone take care of him again after that.

It bugs the hell outa my wife though that the kid is so much closer to me than her now ,because of me taking care of him.

Been working WITH my wife now for several years at her business (and until recently nights at home depot as well but quit that shithole finally a couple months ago).

Gotta say , this should be obvious to anyone, but I don't recommend working with your spouse unless you have no other option!

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I have 5 daughters, a wife with a full time job, a part time job, and is attending nursing school. I work 6 days a week as a machining manager.


I am very good at combing hair, cooking, and being goofy.

Sometimes, I even drive race cars.

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Owner, Driver, Head Mechanic, and Janitor at Tower City Race Team, headquartered near L'Anse. Michigan.
Driver / CoDriver in Rally America, NASARallySport, ARA, AMS, UPMDA, Champ Off Road

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I try to get up at 5:30 am so I can work from 6-noon or so, then come out to wifes lab and work from here and help with our daughter. PhD statistics theory class and HW and work on race cars a few days a week. Might quit school and go teach at local college and start doing more stuff at the lab since we are getting progressively busier.
I can't imagine having to work a regular job and be away from my girls. I could make six figures easily in private sector at this point in my career but am choosing to make 1/4 of that to have the flexibility to spend as much time with my family as possible.

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Grant Hughes

Yep.

Was doing the stay-at-home dad bit for about six years, as once my older son started to crawl, my wife couldn't get a damn bit of work done (she's self-employed, works at home). My retail box job that provided health insurance wasn't in the mood to get me a set schedule or allow me to go part time and limit my availability, so I quit. Average day care costs for one kid around here would've eaten up more than half my gross pay, so we paid through the nose for personal health insurance and I took care of one, then two boys.

That had its ups and downs -- my take on kids is that girls are easier when they're younger, boys when they're older (YMMV) -- but it worked for a good while. I can't say I'm the world's best, or even an mediocre parent, but there aren't any mug shots of me on display, nor any stories about me in Bad Parenting Magazine so it could've been worse.

I have never been known for excellent time management skills, so the only way I rebuilt the deck, built a couple sheds, a hen house, put down hardwood flooring, was the fact that I wasn't in the workforce. Hell, the only reason supper got cooked was that I didn't have to think about "work".

Now my older son is in first grade and my younger in kindergarten, and since it's private school, money's tight.

So I've recently started back in the workforce, first with another big box job for a few months, but I just started working this week for a research and development company as a technician (training) to repair prototype medical equipment. It's a part-time gig, partly to work around my wife's self-employment (now with two or more meetings 90 minutes away each week) and the fact that kindergarten is only four days a week. The new job will probably ramp up into a full-time thing eventually.

And I'm learning more time-management now that I have 30 hours a week taken by work and commuting.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

My wife is lucky enough to be self employed. We've had to set up some barriers around the lab so the kiddo can't get into too much stuff in the labs and helps that both my wife's parents are here most of the time. Business has been steadily increasing and I think we might almost be to the point where I could work here plus maybe teach at the local college to make a few extra dollars. That would be awesome.

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Grant Hughes

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Dante
I have 5 daughters, a wife with a full time job, a part time job, and is attending nursing school. I work 6 days a week as a machining manager.


I am very good at combing hair, cooking, and being goofy.

Sometimes, I even drive race cars.

You're awesome, Al.

Used to be. It was kindofa blast. Much energy and lots of little boy questions and smiles.

deaner, how'd you get a weekend only gig @ Federal?

Just remember guys:

As your daughters get older, you'll still be goofy to them.

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Kirk Coughlin
Woodbury, MN and River Falls, WI

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Dante
I have 5 daughters, a wife with a full time job, a part time job, and is attending nursing school. I work 6 days a week as a machining manager.


I am very good at combing hair, cooking, and being goofy.

Sometimes, I even drive race cars.

You're awesome, Al.

You are Awesomer Carl (llson). You (and yours) went back to school and got big kid jobs. I am contemplating such a move when the wife is done, or maybe I'll just become a rich entrepreneur.

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Owner, Driver, Head Mechanic, and Janitor at Tower City Race Team, headquartered near L'Anse. Michigan.
Driver / CoDriver in Rally America, NASARallySport, ARA, AMS, UPMDA, Champ Off Road

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This can't seriously be a Mr. Mom thread without proud papas bragging and/or posting pics.


Got laid off 2 weeks after she was born, so I was Mr. Mom for the first six months or so - probably the easiest time to do it IMO.

Now that she's much more of a handful (2 1/2 now), I'm back at work and my wife is at home. Would I trade places? Absolutely.

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KF7RWG
http://www.utahrallygroup.com

My boy is 12 now but I well recall the "run-my-company-from-home-while-mom-works-and-try-to-not-run-aground-like-an-Italian-cruiseship" phase. If I can do it anyone can.

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

I live in the great white north where we get a year's parental leave for the kiddos which the parents can split however they like (with some restrictions) I took the 6-12 month stint off with my daughter and it was, hands down, the best 6 months of my life. Wish it would work out financially to keep doing it, but I also know I'd probably end up acting like a toddler permanently before long.

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darkknight9
Used to be. It was kindofa blast. Much energy and lots of little boy questions and smiles.

deaner, how'd you get a weekend only gig @ Federal?

Just remember guys:

As your daughters get older, you'll still be goofy to them.

I just kept an eye out on their employee website(Atk.com). One day a job I was qualified for popped up and I went for it. Was spinning wrenches at a "speed shop" prior. Soooooo thankful I got in at federal. I only work 3-4 days a week, 12hr shifts. Lots of family time now which I absolutely love! Only downside for now is working opposite schedules from my wife. Figure by the time Jase gets to kindergarten, I'll be on weekday shifts. Will be fawking awesome then!