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Awww.....they're so cute! Makes me want another one even more. Shouldn't that last caption read "Daddy takes a nap under Reed"? Thanks for sharing! Andrea twin girls-Jordan & Madison 3 yrs. old |
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Very, very cute digital Larry. Too bad they weren't able to salvage any hair
after the separation surgery - but it seems to be healing nicely. ;-) Reed and Martin are a couple of beautiful boys. :-) Thanks for sharing. Stephanie Jake and Ryan 9/3/99 |
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Very, very cute digital Larry. Too bad they weren't able to salvage any hair
after the separation surgery - but it seems to be healing nicely. ;-) Reed and Martin are a couple of beautiful boys. :-) Thanks for sharing. Stephanie Jake and Ryan 9/3/99 |
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Kimberly,
It can't be! They can't be almost 1 already! They are soooo beautiful. Those blue eyes and dark hair. You are gonna have your work cut out when they hit dating age!! Stephanie Jake and Ryan 9/3/99 |
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Kimberly,
It can't be! They can't be almost 1 already! They are soooo beautiful. Those blue eyes and dark hair. You are gonna have your work cut out when they hit dating age!! Stephanie Jake and Ryan 9/3/99 |
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"thefackrells" wrote in message news:mw%6b.391359$o%2.175415@sccrnsc02...
Have you crunched the numbers too see if it is "cheaper" just to have DW (or even you) stay home?? Typically the second income, minus daycare expenses, is only a few thousands dollars at the end of the year....which doesn't really make it worth leaving your kids for someone else to raise... Well let's put it this way... this is my wife's desire to return to work (at least theoretically - I know another friend who tried that for about a week and threw in the towel on a successful graphics career). It is not based solely on financial considerations. Her rationale is that she was raised by a single working mother, and though I hope she doesn't plan to become single, she is just getting started on a public health career that she got a Master's in her mid-30's in order to pursue. But... y'know... that's just today's concept. As far as the ideal child rearing situation goes, certainly it would be great if neither one of us had to work and could spend all of our time watching the kids and videotaping their first this and that. I feel like I'll be missing all of that anyway. I just returned to full time and it's difficult. As when we started into this adventure we do not know how we will feel when we actually try it. The only consolation is that we can always change our minds if that becomes necessary. Everyone appears to feel the sting of time passing as they watch their kids grow and become less cute (LOL). |
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"thefackrells" wrote in message news:mw%6b.391359$o%2.175415@sccrnsc02...
Have you crunched the numbers too see if it is "cheaper" just to have DW (or even you) stay home?? Typically the second income, minus daycare expenses, is only a few thousands dollars at the end of the year....which doesn't really make it worth leaving your kids for someone else to raise... Well let's put it this way... this is my wife's desire to return to work (at least theoretically - I know another friend who tried that for about a week and threw in the towel on a successful graphics career). It is not based solely on financial considerations. Her rationale is that she was raised by a single working mother, and though I hope she doesn't plan to become single, she is just getting started on a public health career that she got a Master's in her mid-30's in order to pursue. But... y'know... that's just today's concept. As far as the ideal child rearing situation goes, certainly it would be great if neither one of us had to work and could spend all of our time watching the kids and videotaping their first this and that. I feel like I'll be missing all of that anyway. I just returned to full time and it's difficult. As when we started into this adventure we do not know how we will feel when we actually try it. The only consolation is that we can always change our minds if that becomes necessary. Everyone appears to feel the sting of time passing as they watch their kids grow and become less cute (LOL). |
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Gwen writes:
Have you crunched the numbers too see if it is "cheaper" just to have DW (or even you) stay home?? Typically the second income, minus daycare expenses, is only a few thousands dollars at the end of the year....which doesn't really make it worth leaving your kids for someone else to raise... Maybe you meant this in a more friendly way, but it sounds like an attack on working parents. I don't agree that people who use childcare options, of various sorts, are necessarily less engaged in their children's growth and development. We used to have one poster who occasionally showed up here to castigate working parents. We haven't heard from him for a while, and I'm just as glad for that. David desJardins |
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Can we cope with twins- no spin answers sought
Gwen writes:
Have you crunched the numbers too see if it is "cheaper" just to have DW (or even you) stay home?? Typically the second income, minus daycare expenses, is only a few thousands dollars at the end of the year....which doesn't really make it worth leaving your kids for someone else to raise... Maybe you meant this in a more friendly way, but it sounds like an attack on working parents. I don't agree that people who use childcare options, of various sorts, are necessarily less engaged in their children's growth and development. We used to have one poster who occasionally showed up here to castigate working parents. We haven't heard from him for a while, and I'm just as glad for that. David desJardins |
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Can we cope with twins- no spin answers sought-David
No so much an attack but more of a Plea to reconsider ALL options of a
parent staying home as opposed to both of them working outside the home..... But yes, I will not hide the fact that I'm a HUGE supporter of a parent staying home and raising their own kids! This is not to say I don't realize that some circumstances can't be helped and both parents must work (or say one parent is no longer around)... I mean, shelter/food/security MUST be met somehow!!! I'm not about to suggest that a family live in a refrigerator box on the street just so a mommy or daddy can be home - not at all!! Life happens, I understand that! What I don't care for are the materialist and/or selfish *parents* that just will NOT give up the second income or their careers so that they can continue living their DINKY lifestyles....when it comes down to it, kids don't care if they have a 30' boat, flat screen t.v.'s w/maxed out cable or satellite, 3 *luxury* cars/suvs/trucks in the garage, or a 4000sq' home (etc etc etc)....they care about being with their mommies and daddies!! If that means moving to a less expensive neighborhood and/or state, you do it. If it means selling off expensive *toys*, you do it....if it means eating at home instead of out (gulp) you do it! If it means cutting back to live within your means, YOU DO IT! I know when we were preggers with my first, all of a sudden DH got scared and started to say I would have to go back to work....I held my ground, obviously, and at one point he actually said that he just wanted to make sure that he was still able to have his steak and lobsters....of which I replied he would be eating hamburger, potatoes and rice if we had too, I was staying home!! heck, I know of a family that made less than $30k/yr with 5 kids (yup, a pair of twins in there too!) in the home and they managed (I don't know how!) to have the mom stay home...and I know several on the lower income end that even make their own laundry soap in order to cut corners! It can be done! Gwen |
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