November 10

Well, it’s time to get going again.

                    It’s been 11 years, 1 month, 21 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes since I became a father for the first time and began the process of slowly pulling back from the home based I began because I just couldn’t stand waiting tables anymore.  I have been a stay-at-home dad since that time and I don’t regret a minute of it.

                     What it taught me more than anything else is living where you are.  For awhile, I was trying to still go out and teach acting classes and take care of my son.  Later on it became teach acting classes and take care of my son and daughter.  I know some people have been able to do both, but not me.  If I was doing something in one area, I was very slow changing to another area of importance.  I really couldn’t focus on making the kids the best that they could be, if I was focusing on making the business the best that it could be.  I chose.

                        You have to lose your idea of what discipline is. Taking care of kids means you have to be flexible with your time.  They don’t always get to the same places you want to get to at the same time and you have to be flexible.  It’s not where you are, it’s where you are all together.  That’s your discipline.  You’re a family. You adapt, you change, you grow and you do it all together.

                        My family all together now means I have to go back to the old order of discipline.  And it’s hard for me to change that.  I should have a load of laundry going right now and I should have some clue about what we’re going to eat for dinner.  But the discipline too requires me to be here as well.