When Emmeline started kindergarten last year, I admit I was a little weepy — OK, a LOT weepy. Really, it was uncouth.
I sort of wandered around the city for a few days, as if someone had just kicked me in the soul, thinking to myself, “Where’d my buddy go anyway?”
When she started first grade a few weeks ago, I may or may not have stopped the car to let her out before Dana and I hustled over to a new favorite restaurant to enjoy some coffee in our new-found peace and quiet. And also to enjoy this, the rebel within.
By the time the poor kid got home from school, I had consumed nearly 50 of these things in an orgy of egg consumption that would have had even Cool Hand Luke looking uneasy.
“How was your first day? Awesome! Because I had a muffin with a freaking egg inside it!”


What you published made a ton of sense. But, think about this,
suppose you added a little content? I mean, I don’t want to tell you how to run your blog, however suppose you added a title to maybe grab people’s attention?
I mean Cry It Out: Memoirs of a stay-at-home dad ? Blog Archive ? First grade not so blues is a little plain. You ought to glance
at Yahoo’s front page and note how they create article titles to get people to open the links. You might add a related video or a pic or two to grab people excited about what you’ve written.
Just my opinion, it would make your posts a little bit more interesting.
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Hi Mike, I am going to hold onto the dream of peace and quiet you have achieved. I am gutting it out, trying to hold onto my sanity, as a SAHD of two toddlers, and to further compound the complexities, we are recent expatriates to former Eastern Germany, and I’m Japanese American. Since this is former East Germany, everyone works, per communism. So I’m a triple minority here. People used to give up their kids to full time daycare from age 8 weeks. People still give up their kids even as young as 1 year. My experiences: jasahdig.blogspot.com
I’ll be following. Best of luck.
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This totally happened to me too.
Good stuff.