So if it's day 2 how is it the beginning? Well, today is day 2 of my new life as a stay-at-home dad (I'm not sure if stay at home needs the hyphens but I like the way it looks so lets just roll with it, eh?). It's the begining because today I decided this big change in my life might just be worth writing about. Admittedly not worth much to anyone other than myself (oh look the self-depreciation's kicking in already) but it's a process, I guess.

The last three years of my life have been somewhat hectic. I've worked in a horribly stressful job, working ridiculously long hours and, for the last 6 months, spending far too many evenings away from home. During this time my wife and I have been trying to raise our two wonderful sons, who I will call C and D from here on in.

So my wife has gone to restart her career and I've swapped a stressful job where interesting things might happen ("today I visited all 5 countries of the UK and Ireland in a less that 9 hours") for a different kind of stressful where, let's face it, less interesting things are likely to happen ("today we had corned beef toasties for lunch, but saying as I was making them for the kids I sweated the onions first"). See what I mean?

I've no idea what C, D and I will be getting up to, but good or bad, exciting or boring, I'll be tweeting about our exploits through my Twitter account @takenpictures. So please follow me if you want to find out what we get up to each day.

This Posterous blog will hopefully act as a place for me to write longer posts where I can reflect on what we've been up to and how I'm reacting to my new role.

I've always been a bit of a creative type and I'm hoping my time at home will allow me to get to grips with two of my long lost passions, painting and songwriting. So you never know, there might be something worth coming back for after all?