And speaking of Halloween ... Oregon stay-at-home dad Thad Starr showed it's possible to do something productive during nap time, even if you wind up making out with produce.
The father of two won the world pumpkin series with a gourd that weighed in at 1,524 pounds -- or 300 more than the closest competitor.
His reaction?
"You'll see me kiss all my pumpkins," Starr said a few minutes later. "It kind of sounds corny, but you develop a bond with your pumpkins. ... They're almost your friends."
Congratulations, big guy. You're making fellow SAHDS proud -- and the wives of fellow SAHDS ask some serious, serious questions about daily time expenditures -- but still, I've got some advice for next year:
TiVo. It dulls the loneliness that makes pumpkin carving sound appealing.
[Photo courtesy the San Francisco Chronicle]
