But it certainly feels like one right about now.

For a while there I was a bit worried about not feeling much movement from Sarah. I shouldn’t have been. She’s currently performing acrobatic feats and generally making me uncomfortable. I don’t remember Liam ever being this active until much later on. I guess it goes to show how different each pregnancy can be. I just wonder if I can survive the next 18 weeks while still staying sane. I did it once before……

Yeah right. I am still fat at the start of week three of my diet and frankly that doesn’t surprise me. I would surprise the idiots who tout low carb diets as a miracle plan with no real understanding of anything more than how to run their mouths.

On that note in two weeks I have gone through more that 12 dozen eggs, two hams, 5 pounds of bacon, 6 pounds of sausages, more than a dozen pounds of steak, 10 pounds of pork chops, a couple of chickens, a couple dozen deep fried chicken legs among other stuff and dropped 20 pounds. For those who want to tell me low carb diets don’t work well you can kiss my hairy but nearly as fat ass.

20 pounds gone 120 to go!

Katy at noon.  I was informed there would be no live blogging of the birth.
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If you are a stay at home parent there are all sorts of things you can do to make money.  I don’t propose to tell you how to make money fast, but rather how to make money quickly.  The difference here is making money fast would assume you get paid upon completion of a task.  There are ways to do that, like selling things on eBay, but very few of them can be completed quickly. Read the rest of this entry »

What are you expecting as a new dad? I am not sure what to expect, except I know that I will be giving up any chance of getting out of the house and continue on with my life for another six or seven years. It is the reality of our situation, I have disability income for all my various ills and injuries, and Katy doesn’t so I am the logical choice as primary care giver for the kids. I hate it and am resentful of it almost every day, but I do it because as a responsible parent you have to give up what you want a good part of the time to make sure your kids are taken care of.

So what am I expecting this time that will be different? Well unless the economy turns around and Katy can find a good job, any job she has will leave us getting social services including insurance, which will be different for me. Not having insurance for nearly seven years is what let me get as bad off as I did in the first place. I am also older, wiser, and have a more defined career path that works with staying at home. Writing and blogging aren’t considered “real work” by the bureaucrats so profits generated only have to be reported as made, but not income earned. The IRS takes a different view, but with two kids it should work to our benefit. Read the rest of this entry »

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In the course of nearly ten years of being a stay at home dad by default I have learned a few things. Call it a parenting course based on my on the job training.

5) You are Dad. That means a lot, don’t shirk your responsibilities. You will have to turn off your xbox or step away from the computer to watch Sesame Street and smile when you would rather strangling that fucking Elmo. Putting on the right face is part of the job.

4) You are Dad. Don’t try and be Mom. It will never work. It doesn’t matter if your child has no mother or even another Dad, if you try and be Mom you will fail horribly. Be Dad and be a good Dad, it is all anyone could ever ask or expect.

3) You are a stay at home dad, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to work. Don’t put up with any crap from people who think you don’t work. If you are doing your job right, you will work your ass off every day. If you happen to have a secondary job to being the stay at home parent, remember that it is always secondary to the job of being the stay at home Dad.

2) Show your respect for the person going off to the job that lets you be a stay at home Dad. Don’t, however let them get away with shoving off all their responsibilities of being a parent and living in the house off on you though. You are a stay at home Dad, not their personal servant. Even if you are into that sort of role playing, remember it is when the kids have gone to bed and you are allowed a temporary reprieve.

1) Realize until your kids are in school all day long five days a week your free time is limited, so make the best use of it you can. i recommend napping every time they do.