Must be nice. yeah, sitting home and not making any money is totally worth getting to see first round playoff baseball. :banghead: you take a lot of crap for it, but if i could find a wife who was able to provide enough money for me to live the way i want to live and was willing to let me stay at home... screw it, i'd be all over that. Ditto. I'd rather be with my kids than work at most any job unless it was my dream job. There are pluses and minuses to it. The pros include being with the kids (rather than having a daycare shoulder the child raising responsibilities), the time to get things done during the day that double-income parents have to do at night or on weekends (which means more family time when the wife is home), etc. The cons are that while my wife makes enough money to pay the bills, we aren't really saving much for the future and don't have much extra money to go on vacations, concerts, sporting events and the like. I also don't have a lot of contact with other adults, which can drive you crazy after awhile. My job back in PA was great because it was part time, paid pretty decently, and gave me a nice escape from the parenting world (not to mention that it was the most fun job I've ever had). I am working on getting a job here that might provide the same level of satisfaction....