Dinners Without Dad
Very odd to be riding the train this morning during my morning commute and see my picture staring back at me from the cover of my neighbor's copy of USA Today. Bob Minzesheimer joined me for my commute and dinner about a month ago, and today his feature on the book came out.
Although it's wonderful to be sent on a tour by your publisher, it's great to come home. I missed my kids and wife, and I believe they missed me (at least they said they did). Lulu said she had a "good" week, but not a "great" week because I was not there, and Simon insisted I sleep in his bed (I politely declined).
Lots of work piling up in the office, but after 7 nights of Dinner Without Dad, I plan on making it home. Christine, however, is cooking.
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Cam, I heard you on Leonard Lopate today and you sounded great. I think your choice to be home more with Christine and the kids is the right one--even if you are making less $. At the end of the day, those extra dollars are meaningless and you can always make more, if you really want.
Kids grow up very quickly as you know. My husband Josh and I made the committment after our first son was born (almost 17 years ago) to 1)always stay self-employed to maintain flexibility and 2) live and work in the same place to avoid commuting. There is no doubt that we have made financial and career sacrifices. But, like you, we live in Westport in a fairly decent house (probably a tear down by Westport standards), we eat dinner together pretty much every night (except Saturday, when I refuse to cook) and I think my kids are doing great because we are here for them. Our businesses, Challah Connection (mine) and Customer Growth (Josh's) are doing well--although they could probably do better if we decided to make business our #1 priority over family. But, we're not willing to do that.
Good for you for bringing all of this to the table, so to speak!
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