Jay is in Texas.  He flew in to Austin the other day and due to scheduling difficulties, Ty couldn't bring him back to his apartment.  So he took him to work with him, instead.

Remember Take Your Daughter to Work Day?  Do they still do that?  Or did all the working Moms in America finally stand up and say "HEY!  I enrolled this kid in your school so I WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS !"?   Or did someone finally realize that working people don't get the summer off, but school kids do, so instead of losing a day of state run education, let's have TYDtWD during vacation, so naturally no one bothers to do it anymore?

I loved taking my kids to work with me.  First of all, I have awesome kids.  Jay loves taking them to work with him also but never limited it to one day a year.  His kids join him at work at least 12 times a year.  More when we host the playoffs.  When they were little, Tyler and Katie used to work the state tourney so I would yank them out of school for two or three days and they got to hang out at the gym from noon til the last game ended.  They had a blast.  Katie grew up and stopped watching but Ty still needs to satisfy his basketball jones at least three times a week all season.  A girlfriend once complained "Why so many games?"  He dumped her.  If you have to ask, you can never understand.

Second of all, I work at home so taking my kids to work with me simply meant I didn't have to drive them to school.  Naturally, they had all hung out in my office plenty so it's not like they didn't know what I did.  Once, when he was about two, Zack got into my paint.  Seventeen years later, he still occasionally wakes up in a cold sweat, reliving the wrath of mom.  He had never been in that much trouble.  He hadn't known there was that much trouble.  He does believe that I would be a good one to have at his side when the zombie wars start.  He knows.

So when I took my kids to work, it was always the first job we concentrated on, not the designing and painting stuff, which they were all bored to death with. 

It works, you know.  Show your kids what you do, how much fun it is, why it's so fulfilling and they'll want to follow in your footsteps.

Which is why I have two sons and two daughters who want, more than anything in the world, to someday be stay at home moms.

But the brass ring hasn't come around for any of them yet so they have to work and get all schooled 'n stuff.

Which is how Ty wound up bringing his dad to work with him.

Just the idea of "Hey, guys.  This is my Dad.  Dad, sit there and don't touch anything.  If the boss comes by, be still and quiet and maybe he won't notice you...Oh!  Hey, Mr. Bossman...yeah, that's my dad.  Um...I didn't know what else to do with him.  Yes, I promise he won't disrupt the office. I'll be able to get my work done.  Yes.  Yes.  Yes...it'll never happen again."

But that would never work with Jay.  I don't care whose office he winds up in, twenty minutes later he'll be the boss's new best friend and when he's gone, everyone will heave a big sigh and say "Who was that masked man?"

Besides, Ty didn't have to stick Jay in a corner with a coloring book.  Ty works at Calloway Golf's pre owned division.  He just turned his dad loose in the ware house and left him there for hours.

Jay felt like he had discovered El Dorado.

I think he wept when it was quittin' time.

 

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