One Good Wise Decision #reverb10

#Reverb10 #10 What was the wisest decision you made this year, and how did it play out?

Now this I can play with.

Sorry about the last one.

I don't make decisions. My wife and I do. We might take input from the children if it concerns them, but we still make the decisions.

The wisest one we've made in a while is one that actually happened several years ago, but culminated this year.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to be home a great deal for the first two years of our youngest's life. It has turned her literally into daddy's girl.

My wife felt some of the slight, but in large part because she was working not too long after she was born.

Not too long after, opportunity and chance made it so that my wife could stay home full time and we agreed that she would so long as the youngest was not in school full time.

Well, she entered kindergarten this year, YEAH!

And my wife was back on the job market.

It's worked out GREAT for us.

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