Ok, so this blog is taking a little longer to get going then I had initially planned, mostly due to the holidays and having relatives visiting. I'm hoping to get things moving along soon, but with a trip down south to the in-laws (due to the wife's work) it may not be as soon as I had hoped. However, before I get in to the general content of the blog, (of which the ideas are piling up) here is a little bit on why I have chosen to blog.
I touched briefly on this in the first post, but I thought I would expand things a little here. I've written a bit about my life in the page above, but I wanted to add some more thoughts here and explain a few things before we got to far along.
Since I met my wife, some 8 years ago, we've had pretty similar ideas on raising children, i.e. one parent to stay at home, and as I mentioned, I never thought it would be me. When they started making redundancies in the company I worked at, my department was the only one who didn't have any redundancies, although a couple of contract staff didn't get their contracts renewed. So, it was fairly evident that we were next and as it turned out, they made several redundancies and also went down to a 4 day week! My wife on the other hand had just finished her training and was contracted to 2 years work. So we chose the 2 years of pretty much guaranteed work over possibly no work, not a particularly hard choice. So started my time as a househusband.
Once the little man came along it was just natural that we would continue on the same path, I would continue at home and the wife would continue at work. I seemed natural and sensible, rather than me having to try and find a job the could support us. I have worked several times during my stint as a househusband/father, working evenings or weekends around the children and wife, but it always cuts in to family time, mostly as working usually occurs at weekends or evenings, the two times when were all together or time when the wife and I get to have some quality time.
With the arrival of the young lady, time has become even more precious. These days I find there is never enough time, even with the little man being at nursery, to get all the chores done and get time to relax and enjoy my hobbies. DIY work pretty much takes up most of my evenings. So your probably wondering why I started this blog? Well, mostly because I though it might be a good idea, as a platform for many different things, either for me to moan, to ask questions (and maybe get answers), to see what others out there are experiencing, (mostly other full time dads, as there doesn't seem to be many blogs dedicated to us), to ponder the universe and the meaning of life. Ok, maybe not the last two, but you get the idea.
I hope that in some small way this may bring others full time dads together. I personally don't know any other full time dads, there are a few dads who take a leading role in childcare, but none that I know who are full time dads. I think in my wildest dreams I see this blog becoming the centre of full time dad universe, but in reality, I guess it'll probably just be me shouting at the internet, a lot.
So, hopefully there will be some actual content up soon!
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