i totally love and respect all the stay-at-home-dads (SAHDs).
mine is the best!
you guys take shit from patriarchal bastards, deal with whiny kids all day, and support your partners' decisions/rights to have a job outside the home.
i had a hard day today. i worked all night last night (7p - 7a) and couldn't really sleep well today. but he kept the kids, had them stay relatively quiet, read them books, homeschooled, took them for a hike, drove around until the 2 yo fell asleep, and made me coffee for when i woke up. fucking awesome. i am too lucky.
i like my job. i don't love it; it's a job, you know? but i surely like it better than any job my partner had when i was pregnant, new mothering, and/or going to school. and i make twice as much money as he did. that helps.
i have recently added some links (see right) to some SAHD and radical parenting blogs.
SAHD blogs:
- daddy dialectic
- lesbian dad
radical parenting blogs:
- anti-racist parent
- ariel gore
- my mother wears combat boots
- rad dad
on another note, i linked to laura shanley's blog on free birth (aka unassisted childbirth).
on still another note, i'm seriously thinking about getting my IUD out. i have the mirena. i have been unexplainably depressed lately, had zero libido (hey, that kind of rhymes) and have gained a bunch of weight. but mostly it's just uncomfortable all the time.
i just don't want to have any more babies. it's a conundrum.
