So I was doing an online test for a possible part time job, in which they live recorded me via my computer’s microphone and then evaluated me for work. It was going ok until my children suddenly remembered that I was doing something important and they were supposed to stop me from doing it. It […]
Category Archives: Stay at Home Dad
I Need an Impossible Job
So this blogging thing is not as lucrative as I was led to believe. Opera singing is good work if you can get it, but the gigs, while certainly picking up, are still a little far apart for my tastes. So that means for most of my time I am watching television, surfing the internet, […]
Don’t Wake the Steve
It was laundry day again, and you may recall that my trip to the laundromat did not go so well, so I decided to drive over to my mother-in-law’s apartment and do laundry there. There are toys there, and at least my kids wouldn’t be bothering anyone else with their maniacal behavior. I did try […]
Baby Traps
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about setting traps for your baby, so as to prevent escape and destruction. I then received several comments demanding pictures or videos of said traps. The problem, of course, is that these traps are set up for times when I am trying to do something else, and […]
Laundry Day, or Why People With Small Children Should Avoid the Laundromat
Our new house has no laundry facilities, so last week, for the first time in about a decade, I went to the laundromat. I previously did not enjoy the whole “laundromat experience,” but that was before I had two kids. Now the whole thing is just disastrous. First of all, there is no laundromat in […]
Setting Up a Series of Traps for Your Baby
You know the feeling. You are sitting at home trying to get something done, but for some unfathomable reason buried deep in the past, you decided to have a baby. Now the days of getting things done are a distant memory, or were they just a hazy half-remembered dream? Either way, you are now faced […]
What to Do When Your Baby Eats Kitty Litter
I had a rough first day back. For one thing, Edward was not even crawling when I left for Florida, and now, a month later, he is crawling, pulling up on things, and generally making mischief. Ruby has nicknamed him “Danger E” because, as she explained, he is always getting into trouble. We dropped Ruby […]
A Day in the Life
I woke up this morning, as usual, with no concrete plan for the day, other than 1) Pack2) Learn Music3) Don’t Lose the Children This didn’t go well. I only managed to do one of those three things. To start with, today was, for all intents and purposes, a Monday. I know it was a […]