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SAHD Friday: Re-establishing Roles

My family.
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If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you know by now that I am the stay at home parent in our house.  Over the summer however, my wife was home on maternity leave with our youngest son being born and all.

In September, she went back to work.  It has been interesting trying to re-establish our roles in the house and get back on a good routine.  Even this post is about a month in the making.  I have been trying to write it for that long without success.  I have been doing way too many things and putting this post off.  I have another one on procrastination in the works, maybe I should combine them!

It was quite a change when she went back to work, especially for the kids.  We had spent 3 months with her always home.  Now she was leaving again and I had to step back up as the full time homemaker as well as internet guru, company president, blogger etc.  None of these are hard, none of these are different than what we have been doing for years.
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Nothing But A Pile Of Sticks: Part 2- Details and the Work

Salt Lake County as seen from space.

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I don’t know how many people actually want to read about this stuff, but it is my blog so read it or don’t.  Anyway, we left off last time with us finding out on a Monday night that we had until Thursday Morning at 9:00 AM to be out.  After the initial panic subsided and the first phone call to the mortgage place saying what in the name of all that is holy and right is going on.  They said, well the house is sold, there is nothing we can do.  I say what about the modification?  They say well we were working on it until last Friday and then it was closed out.  Insert your favorite string of four letter words here.
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