The unseen Mr. Mom

Where to begin is the question for me? Lets start off by letting you know I am currently a stay at home father of three wonderful kids. Two boys ages eight and six, and my daughter who is 10 weeks young. I have been out of work for just over a year and a half now. First due to an injury that put me through surgery, and then laid off due to the economy.. OK now that you know the basics, let's get to the point.
You always see on Oprah or Dr. Phil about the stay at home Mom's. What about us stay at home Dad's? I am not ashamed of the fact that I get to stay home with my kids every day for the past year and a half. I am seeing the best years of their lives right now, and to be honest with you they teach me something every day....

My wife works a normal job 40 hours a week. I stay home with the kids. Now for a man to say to his wife, that it is a lot easier to stay home with the kids then to go make a living, well I will tell you this. I believe from my point of view it is prob about a 99 % to 1% when it comes to this, and yes the 99% is in favor of the stay at home person in the family.. Now I am not saying that my wife does nothing. She does her fair share of things around the house. I can say that I totally understand now, what my wife said years ago that she is tired, sore, stressed, and she had a headache from hell. (I always chalked it up to her Aunt flow was visiting lol.) Well I know that seems shallow, but to be honest back then that's how I was. If anyone from high school was ever to read this, they would say I was a player back then, and yes I admit it I was. I thought all of it was excuses just so she could get out of doing it. To tell you the truth I understand to the fullest what she meant by that. There have been many days in a week that I have had really bad headaches, to tired to even keep my eyes open, every muscle in my body hurt from all of the house work I have been doing.
Put it this way I am a Carpenter by trade for many years now, and that can be back breaking work. That holds nothing to staying home and taking care of kids and doing all the house work and making dinner.. For you men that are carpenters out there. You think stripping a roof and relaying shingles in 95 degree weather is rough. How bout giving birth, even though I may not know what it is like to giving birth, think of it as carrying 100 bundles of shingles up a ladder onto the roof and then when your done install the shingles clean up the work site and call it a day. If you do that over and over for a week straight. It wouldn't even put a dent into what women go through when they try and push a freaking watermelon out of a hole the size of a plum... So to end this novel I just rambled on about.

Men if you think that being a father is rough, well your right, IT IS... If you think that going to work to support your family is rough... IT IS.. If you think that staying at home and taking care of the kids and house is rough .... Your right IT IS.. So if you are sick of hearing your wife or girlfriend say I'm tired, or my head hurts, or my back hurts, or I have cramps, All I have to say is three words... SUCK IT UP!!!! Stay home and take care of the kids even for a day or two and see what it is really like to work.... ENOUGH SAID.