Winning The Lottery

I definitely need to win the lottery. I spend way too much time at work and not enough time at home with my family. Even if you DIDN'T factor in the deployments and the strictly military stuff, there's the fact that I usually see my little girl for about, oh, fifteen hours a WEEK.

15 hours.

That's nuts.

Today, I wake up late because I'll be working late and Dora is on. I sit on the couch for a second and my beautiful little girl comes up to me, climbs o her little chair and onto the couch and sits in my lap with her head on my chest watching the show and I'm thinking "I have so much I need to do but I just can't bring myself to leave right now."

It's heartbreaking sometimes.

Ah, but if I won the lottery, I could spend all day with my little girl. I could help out my wife around the house, we could tackle education full time juggling time with Annie so that one parent can go to class while the other watches her because even if you never have to work another day in your life, there should still be a pursuit of knowledge in my opinion.

Hear that Annie?

No matter what, go to college.

Now sure, I know everyone would love to win the lottery and I'm sure there are other people out there who deserve winning borderline-free money (and lots of it) but if I ever won, I wouldn't complain or think twice about taking it. I have ALWAYS thought that I would be happier if I stayed at home with my family even telling Kim I'd be more than willing to be the stay-at-home dad if she wanted to work. Monotony doesn't bug me, chores don't bug me and life at home doesn't bug me.

Leaving my family to go to work, that kind of bugs me.

*Sigh* But this is being an adult. Doing what needs to be done for the benefit of your family. It's all very adult stuff, you see. I'm providing a good life (hopefully) for my family at the expense of not being able to be at home very much to see it.