Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure

[Matt]

If it doesn’t empty out I may set it on fire.

[Aetas]

Burn it, but you’ll also burn some IH memories with it  8).

But I am sure, nest is getting lighter in the next years  ;)!

[Matt]

For those of you with children, do you experience a ceaseless carousel talking, singing and humming? Yet another reason why a house with rooms that have solid wood doors is attractive to me right now. I’m excited to start going to concerts again when they start up.  So I can continue to expedite my hearing loss.

[Bfd70]

I’ve got kids and totally get it but you gave them an experience they’ll never forget. You deserve a best dad tshirt

[steelworker]

@Matt:

For those of you with children, do you experience a ceaseless carousel talking, singing and humming? Yet another reason why a house with rooms that have solid wood doors is attractive to me right now. I’m excited to start going to concerts again when they start up.  So I can continue to expedite my hearing loss.

I see your fists are clenched in that last photo.    My hat is off to you and your wife @Matt . In your place I'd have made gruesome headlines by now.

[Matt]

It was a good time to be sure and there’s still plenty to see this spring.  As for the girls, they are good girls.  I guess it comes down to this… there’s dads like the ones on tv and then there’s my dad.  I’m definitely more like my dad.  There just so much crying and eye rolling with girls.  What the hell is that?

[RoxRocks86]

@Matt:

There just so much crying and eye rolling with girls.  What the hell is that?

Brace yourself they’re just warming up  ::) 

[Snowy]

Matt, sounds like you need a day away - a daddy day? Is it possible to find some alone time for your sanity (and those of your family). I'm sure it's not as bad as I'm reading here, but seems like the confines are adding up a bit. You're a saint in my books, no way would I have made it past a week - literal trip of a lifetime and I know it's not all ups, but it's the journey not the end :).

[Matt]

@RoxRocks86 This is one of those things I’m abstractly aware of but refuse to consciously acknowledge.  That’s the Dad’s Way.

[Matt]

@Snowy I’m going to make it.  Once we get a real healthcare plan it’s all Lexapro and no looking back. 

[Giles]

@RoxRocks86:

Brace yourself they’re just warming up  ::) 

Post of the thread…..

[Matt]

I’ve laid a lot of groundwork for instilling in them the virtues of lesbianism and childlessness.  I also sneak in some stuff about the benefits of learning a trade over going to college.  It’s the long game for me.

[Giles]

What a wise father you are.

I'd have willingly given Alex roughly what it would have cost to put him through university as down payment on some sort of trade/business.

Luckily he saw the light and flunked Uni early….

[sabergirl]

I could’ve had a house bought with cash for the price of my college education, and it would’ve put me in much better stead for the future.

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[Giles]

Ex-fucking-xactly…..

I'm not a girl if no one had noticed, but if my parents had said to me, you can have a big fancy wedding or a nice small one and we'll bung you the delta in cash, they'd be missing limbs, such would have been my enthusiasm to shake on the deal....

[Aetas]

@Matt:

…  It’s the long game for me.

@Matt:

[Matt]

My father in law offered us $20k to not have a wedding. 

[Giles]

And?

[Matt]

And I’m told it was a lovely reception.  All I remember is the open bar.

[Matt]

Tonto National Forest this week…