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Three Days With the Kids

April 13, 2013 by Stephen Pasquini

I have had such a great 3 days with the kids.

For the first time in so long, I put everything aside. The blogging, the web dev. and my iPhone and focused all my attention on my children. It has been wonderful!

My presence has been scattered as of late. I feel like my mind is usually working on 3 planes.

Being alone with the kids has opened up opportunities that I had not foreseen. And this is my attention. My complete and total attention.

When there are two parents it is easy to be distracted. After these 3 days I realize that if I didn’t have to work, or even if I did have to work part time and raise children it could be done.

Although I am writing this from bed and it is 10pm so now I understand why Wendy is so tired all the time.

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