Today Holly is home with Brennon cause Brennon has a cold. She needs it anyways as this week she has had to do paperwork and stay up to when I go to bed around midnight. Then she gets up at 5:30 to get the baby ready and to go to work. Sometimes Brennon gets up at 4AM and I can't hear a single peep so sad to say Holly has to do it. I actually did awake last night around 3AM to hear the baby crying in our room and Holly already up comforting him. It was weird cause I was probably 90% asleep. I noticed Holly was already up so I successfully went back to sleep with a crying baby in the room. The other night I was up till 1:30 with Brennon as he likes to wake up when I was going to bed at 12:45. I think I might have given Brennon my cold, if I have a cold. It may be allergies. I do go slower to figure out what is wrong. I do the checklist - changing, burping, eating, pacifier and then try to get him to sleep through some measure. Sometimes I think, well if he is going to cry and I've done all I can do what can I do?

Taking care of the baby during the day at our house is easier than being at work. I know, some stay at home moms will disagree, but it all depends on how much you choose to do and how much the baby sleeps. While you have the baby awake he gets your undivided attention so that is like work but there are fun moments when you play with him. You also can put the baby down in a crib or playpen for a little bit and eat, nap and watch tv. Also if you ignore housework there is no boss to give you a bad review or anything. I know I don't care if the house is dirty or not. So that part of the stay at home mom duty is not needed. When requests are made you don't ever have to do anything right away. Although I wonder how Brennon will react to our easy going personalities growing up.

My family is a bit different than most. I don't complain. I don't order around. I don't tell Holly to do anything at all. And in return she does the same thing. Can you imagine how relaxing our house is? I get homesick during the day. Our pre-marriage class at the church helped us iron out our roles and rules before we got married. Life is good and I have the best wife in the world. I think one of the main reasons I like her so much is because she is different from the women of my childhood. My mom demanded alot from me and even my sister did to. I was ordered around from a very young age and it never stopped. Everyone always did tell me what to do, and me being a passive person did not tell others back. I just ignored their requests or I complied just to get them to be quiet. That is why one of the rules in our house is "if you don't like something, do something about it" I will grant you there are some flaws in that and we do comprimise on many things, but we don't ever argue. Live and let live and don't keep score. I think if a most people had that philosophy there would be alot let stress in the world. I call it The Lazy Fair Philosophy.