07: 15-08: 00: Children wrap, wash, brush their teeth, put on clothes, etc. Is it funny, when you splash around with the water and beautify the wall with cream!

08: 00-09: 00: Prepare breakfast and enjoy. Since our children here appreciate a very rich selection, I myself eventually came in the last quarter of an hour to slink down my morning meal.

09: 00-09: 30 Clock: Breakfast table and kitchen cleaned up. This activity can sometimes take just as much time as the actual breakfast, because the children like to spread their food in a radius of two meters. Completely normal, after all, one must first learn to eat with cutlery. The two play meanwhile in the living room, but are not averse to distribute the mess in the whole ground floor. Mom is still tired.

09: 30-11: 30 am: Now you play. Both children agree that EVERYTHING in the children's room must be taken out and distributed on the floor in the attic. Anyone who will clean up the mess later, is actually already clear.

11: 30-13: 30: Finally bedtime. With much luck, the two now sleep happily in their beds for about an hour and a half. Nevertheless, relaxation is unthinkable. After all, there is a lot to do in the house when mom is ill.

13: 30-14: 30: Lunch. The process is roughly comparable to breakfast. Mom lets herself look very briefly, then disappears back into her bed.

14: 30-17: 30: Walk to Grandma and Grandpa. Luckily they do not live very far away. They are happy to see their grandchildren and play with them. I sit down a room, leafing through the newspaper with a cup of coffee, and finally have a chance to rest a little. This is how everyone helps.

17: 30-19: 00: Dinner together. Mom also sits at the table with no appetite, but looks like a zombie and is not capable of any major entertainment. The process is similar to that of the other meals, except that the mess reaches its peak during dinner.

19: 00-19: 30: The children are bathed. Of course, in the tub must be various ducks, dolls and Speilsachen. It's great fun to wet each other. Of the
Water level on the bathroom floor is roughly one centimeter, according to rough estimates.

19: 30-20: 30: The children have to be put to bed one after the other. While I manage to make the little girl sleep with only three goodnight songs, the big guy still plays in his room. However, he insists on the full program and slumbers after each three stories and songs.

22:00 clock: Finally I'm completely exhausted in my bed. I'm still watching the news on television before my eyes drop.

It is guaranteed always everything at once

All this was apparently not enough. No sooner was my wife reasonably fit, our daughter got a strong fever that did not want to pass away. The pediatrician advised us to have the baby examined in a children's hospital. There they wanted to put her under observation for at least one night to rule out a serious illness, especially as she also had blue lips for a short time. Of course my wife stayed with me as an escort and I drove home with my son. According to reports, it was not much fun for a kid who is just learning to walk in his cot the whole day long. Crawling did not work because of the infusion and all the equipment. Accordingly, she was tired and ill-tempered all the time. Had there been another patient in the twin room, he would certainly have voluntarily fled.

One night eventually became three. I managed somehow to organize the care for our son with the help of the grandparents. Incidentally, if I was mentally even half present, I could continue to work. After work and visit with wife and daughter, I was alone with my son. I must confess that I really enjoyed our joint "men's evenings".

Finally, I was able to pick up my loved ones again from the clinic. As it turned out, our daughter had a so-called three-day fever - typical of it are very high fever and then a dangerous-looking rash on the skin. All in all a harmless illness that every child will probably get sooner or later. A lot of wind around almost nothing.

My conclusion:

Although inevitably, I enjoyed my time together with my children enormously. Finally, I was able to spend a lot of time with them all day long, which is usually not possible through everyday life and work. Of course there are lots of things to do with two children. Well, if you as a man have already actively tackled with and know accordingly. If not, one is largely helpless against such a situation. What I've achieved these days in any case is a realization that I've had secretly for some time, but never said: that it's definitely my wife who has the more stressful job of both of us.