To understand a bit better, you need to know that we have a 6 and a half year old son, a 3 and a half year old daughter, and our latest addition, a nine month old son, Jacob.
Why would I stay home you say? Well, good question. My spouse is a teacher in elementary school and because they work 10 months out of the year, the employer retains some money on each paychecks, so that come the summer, that money can then be given to the teachers. The problem with that is that if you say, go back to work after your maternity leave around June 1st, you won't put too much aside for the summer now will you? We have learned that the hard way for our first two children, and we did a little more planning for the third one, for which we figured that by allowing my spouse to go back earlier, around early March, she would put some reasonable amount aside for the summer. The only thing with that is that I needed to take the remaining time, which turned out to be six weeks.
Here I am, going for it!
I will try and keep you updated on our daily events, including some background information here and there to make it more interesting.
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