“Daddy, I want you to retire.”

“Why?”

“Because. I don’t want you to go to work anymore and I don’t want you to go out to play basketball in the nighttime either.”

“Honey, most people don’t retire until they’re much, much older – like mommy’s age. Besides, I have to go to work because that’s how we get money. If I don’t go to work, we don’t get to do fun things because we won’t have the money to do it.”

“I want you to do your work at home. On your computer.”

“Believe me: I would if I could, Goose. Someday I will. But for now I have to go into my office to do my work.”

“I don’t want you to, daddy.”

“Why not?”

“Because I want to be with you all the time.”

Comments

Awwwwww! Retire already!

The kid NEEDS you.

Get her to call you Maverick and the reference is complete. Of course Hot Wife could be Jester…

Awwww... I love those moments. They help to balance out my fear of the upcoming years during which our children will swear we're ruining their lives.

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Handy to have a record of this when Goose is a teenager and demanding you get the hell OUT of the house.

Don't you just LURVE it when they hand you your own beating heart like that?

Much, much too sweet!

Wow...that'd be enough to make me quit a job. Then again, just about anything is. But how could you leave for the office after that?

it's great when they pull out the sweet. she's a master.

How can you say no?

That post should've been titled "Guilt Trip".

I recently left work to work from home as a freelancer...youngest kid still goes to nursery though. That's the trouble, work and kids don't mix. No matter where you do it. On the plus side I get to see them off to and collect them from school and nursery every day and in the light (instead of only seeing them when it's dark outside here in the North of Scotland)

Oh the juggling! Oh the guilt!

And this is why we can never stay mad at our children!

This is almost to tough to handle. If it was me I would have to call in sick because of the lump in my throat. To counterbalance this effect just scroll up and look at the top left side of your header. There now, that should help.
P.S. Is it bad of me that I read MisssyM's comments with a Scottish accent. "I rrecently left worrk...". Hee! I love Scotland and her people.

yes, this would have made me tender my resignation the very next day...

Yep, I've had that discussion recently around here, too. And believe me, I would LOVE to retire right now, just to hang with my kid.

Bossy's kids think she and her computer have become one. Where does the arm stop and the keyboard begin?

What a sweetie!

After that comment about HW, I think you may be riding the couch tonight, cowboy.

Retire..Home School...you can be together 24/7!!

wow, loves you more than soup on a hot day and still wants you to stay home-you and hot wife are doing something right!

Had the same conversation with my daughter more often than I care to remember. On the one hand it is so rewarding, and on the other it makes you feel like you're not home enough for them.

Awww, better get that on tape for blackmail in the teen years.

And that right there is what stops us from leaving them in the woods!

My husband is a stay-at-home dad/artist, and our kids (15 & 13) have to BEG him to just get out of the house and allow them some space. So, there's no pleasing them.

(Are you going to tell us why TAFKABBF is now "Goose"?)

Just stop writing political posts (so you don't alienate some of your fan base) and maybe you'll soon become popular enough to become a full-time blogger.

Note: I'm kidding, so please, no hysterical people telling me not to tell DGM what he can and can't post.

Ahhhh... my ego now can't wait until my son can speak.

But I think my ego will be in for a rude awakening when he does. :)

Hysterical? Moi? Only for a day or two a month...

Can we just say a collective awwwwwww!!!! She's adorable!!!

In August I started working 24 hours a week and going to school full time. Last week my 5 year old crawled up on my lap and asked, "Momma, can you just quit your job?" I, of course, asked why (because frankly, I'm looking for a reason and if it comes from a Kindergartener, who cares) and she said, "Because it's like you're not even our momma anymore. I miss you." Fortunately, I made it to the bathroom before I broke down into hysterical sobs and she didn't see her virtually non-existent mother act like a raving lunatic.

I don't know parents who work full time do it. These 24 hours of work a week, plus 12 hours of college and a night class have rendered me useless.

That is just...

She has you wrapped around her adorable little finger, and I bet she knows it.

How cute!

How can you say to to that?

DO IT! screams the 30-year-old retired lawyer.

that's heartbreaking. damn kids!