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They also have small hands and smell of cabbage

My dad always says, "Pstein if I could do it all again, you'd be out long snapping by the time you could walk."

We had some long and hard discussions about the wife staying home, but in the end decided we would still be ahead, though not much, with her working and paying out for daycare. She is a teacher, so at least she will get some time off and we get a break on daycare somewhat, but of course she doesn't make a fortune in the first place, and I'm not much better. We've been very fortunate to have a neighbor provide in-home daycare, and my mother in law takes them a day or two a week while they are little. But next year, it looks like a traditional daycare environment.

We've pretty much learned to live without that money, and have accepted that we will never have that money, that even when they start school, that money will simply cover other expenses, or at the very least go into the college fund.

So far clothing and such has been relatively minor. She shops for bargains and hits garage sales. But I realize that will not last forever with two daughters.

My worst fear: They will want a horse. Somehow we keep falling into daycare scenarios where the people have a horse or horses. We are not horse people, and I don't have that type of coin. We are car people.

But on the other hand, you just can't put a price this time of year on your almost-3-year-old little girl saying "I want to watch basketball with you, dad." or "Which team do we want to win this game?" or "Which guys are Sparty's friends?" or simply responding with a cheerful "Go White!" to your "Go Green!"

oldest is in Kindergarter, other 2 only go to daycare 2 days a week.

Yes. But she's Chinese, not Vietnamese, does that mean I need to post pics?

Not a bad idea. But she's unusual for an Asian. Big hands and sucks at math.

not if you have a sexy mistress

Yeah it wasn't going well with all the missed time with the kids getting sick, I was there for 7 months. And like I said when you are paying 2k a month and still missing work seemingly once a week, even though the wife and took turns when one of the kids got sick, it was not working. And that doesn't even count when I got the flu this year. The job sucked anyway. Like I said I am looking for evening/nights now. And being a Health and Safety guy I can pull that off in an Auto type plant.

Thats pretty much the decision we made. It was just to tough with kids getting sick and having both of us having to take time off of work. Not to mention if one is up during the night. Both our jobs where suffering so I fell on the sword. We still send my 3 year old to young preschool half days for the academic and social aspect. But since I have been home my kids have not been sick. When they were in day care for 10hrs a day they were sick weekly. It is going to suck for awhile, officiating helped now I have to figure out an evening job to help get by.

Until you can take it with you, death is the only way I know to put a definitive end to your cash outlays

yep, those ear infections just disappeared. Like magic.

And where do your kids buy their clothes?