Conversations : movies, coffee, high school.
How is your morning going?
I asked the barista.
Pretty good.
She said.
I'll be off in an hour, and then I'm going to watch movies all day.
Nice!
I said.
What are you going to watch?
I got some five dollar movies at Walmart.
She said.
I got The Wild West with Will Smith...
...and Kenneth Branagh.
I added.
Yep. I used to have it on VHS but
I don't have a player for it now. And then...some Looney Tunes. They help me go to sleep. What are you doing this morning?
Well.
I said.
I teach a couple classes and so I'm going to get some things prepped for next year.
Oh.
She said.
That's cool. I had a history teacher in high school. He was so cool. I'd skip all the time and he didn't even care. As long as I got the work in he was fine with it. He was really cool.
Oh.
I said.
I'm not completely sure I agree, but have fun with the movies!
And I drove away, with some very good coffee, which she has learned to make very well. For my birthday, I would kind of like to watch films all day. But probably not The Wild Wild West. Also, to preempt any questions, my birthday is in September.
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Becca and I split parenting and work. One works, the other schools, plays, and raises young minds and hearts. Then we switch the next day. We have done a variation of this for over eleven years and going strong.
Strong-ish?
I am not avoiding the phrase SAHD (stay at home dad) for any particular reason, other than the fact that it doesn't quite apply in our case accurately. We both raise children, we both work, we both stay home at some points and work at other points. It's great when there's one parent to work five days and one parent to stay home five days or whatever, but that's not us. We keep things hopping and make things work. Most of the time, mostly well.