Stay at home dad

[emr]

Today is the first day of my new career. I will be staying at home with my 3 youngest boys. This is really only a short term and part time job for me. My business partner just had carpal tunnel surgery and needs about 6 weeks of recovery. So in the mean time I am taking the kids to cut down on day care costs. It kind of sucks to be down right now since we still have about a month and a half of work to do. In fact, we would still be working but I basicly told my partner that he needs to get the surgery. It's just better to get that taken care of before it really becomes a safety issue.

So for the next several weeks, if anyone wants to come over for a play date just let me know. I will be here and it will be nice to have some adult company. Now back to watching Cars 2 and I smell a poopie diaper.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Good luck and don't go crazy!!!

 

[woodworkingboy]

I'd drop by if I possibly could. Ring toss is pretty cool, and I can't recall the last time I held a baby.

 

[emr]

The only way I keep from going crazy is chores chores and chores. And stopping in here during breaks. Right now I am working on planning dinner. I will be slow cookering it since we have hockey tonight and dinner needs to be done early.

 

[treesmith]

Here ya go.....http://youtu.be/5PokBAxtvW4

Maybe someone can put it up right. I can't remember how to imbed the video.

 

[pantheraba]

Good on ya!!! It'll be a grand adventure, way more challenging than cutting and rigging trees. Have fun!

 

[sawinredneck]

If I was closer I'd come by and we could go crazy together

 

[emr]

They are my kids so it shouldn't be that bad........ Right?

 

[sawinredneck]

It's that bad, and I only have one!

 

[Peter]

I have mine on my own one day a week, and that is just about right.

Good luck!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Here ya go, I was thinking the same thing reading the posts
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[woodworkingboy]

Enjoy it while you can....persevere. When I lived in the states, sometimes my wife used to take our son and disappear back to her homeland for a couple months at a stretch. I'd come home at night to an empty house and look at his toys, and it would just about break me up. I finally had to throw them into the closet.

 

[PCTREE]

Wow Jay I never knew you had a son, never heard mention of him.

EMR wouldn't it make more sense to hire somebody to replace your partner for a while. He could pay the guys wages and you could keep the same split????

 

[Bodean]

I'd be hammering, though child care is fun.
I only have one and he's a handfull, can't imagine 3.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Yup, Paul, off on his own now.

 

[emr]

I have thought about hiring someone but that will bring a whole new variable into the business that I don't really want to deal with right now and that's workmans comp. Right now we don't need it but that was change if we have an employee, even if they are just part time or temporary. I also thought about getting mg an independent contractor to come and work with me but the only ones I know just wouldn't mesh with me. It's just not worth it. I will just wait it out and start going full bore in 6 weeks. Not to mention is single digits here right now with negative wind chills so I am not really overly excited about working anyway.

The other positive is that I can spend some quality time with my youngest boys. I feel like my 4yo gets shorted on time with me so this is nice. I am also hoping that after this time at home, I will actually be able to tell the twins apart. :-)

 

[sotc]

Find someone and run them through a temp agency or sub another contractor. I agree it seems silly to just shut it down. You may lose work because of it

 

[emr]

We are not going too well loose work because of it. All of our customers knew about this before when they approved the work. The jobs that had to get done are already done. I think it doesn't make sense to pay someone to help out during this time of the year, then come March we won't have any work until the phones start ringing again. We will just wait it out and them we get all of the money and keep busy when the weather is better than it is now.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Taking two-three months off during the winter is a tradition for outdoor workers in some parts of the world. Possibly doing an indoor job during that time. I don't think that it ever found favor in the states.

 

[SouthSoundTree]

Enjoy the kid time!