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I always wanted to be a stay at home dad. My wife's a gig worker and tried branching out on her own business and quickly realized she didn't like the actual business aspect. Which is fine, I genuinely love what I do most days and make enough to where she can mostly stay at home.
I'm about to go on a 3 month paternity leave and oh boy am I excited. After the first few weeks once my wife recovers from surgery it'll most be my oldest and I hanging out while my wife is with our second. I bought stuff for my son and I to record our guitars (he's 3 but he gets so into it), have a little list of science experiments that he loves, plenty of home renovation projects that he gets surprisingly into, a bunch of seeds and a few more raised beds for the garden, and of course, foam baseball bats to hit eachother with.
I'm getting git just thinking about it.
I don't see how anyone could get tired of that, I'm already dreading going back to work and my break hasn't even started.
PS: not to say that it's all fun, I know a lot more goes into being a stay at home parent that baseball bat fights.
Enjoy it man. Truly. Mine are 10 and 13. 5 years until she's an adult. I remember when she started school at 5. I know it's cliché but time does go by. Make as much of it "all fun" as you can. Within reason of course haha.