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Who's Your Daddy?

[caption id="attachment_185" align="alignleft" width="115" caption="Join JAK dads"] [/caption] What’s Your Daddy?  Welcome To My World. Just Add Kids welcomes Toby Mueller, a Raymond dad, as JAK’s guest blogger It seems like I say "Welcome to my world" at least once a day to my wife when she returns from the world previously known to me as outside employment. I am sure I heard my mom say it to my dad during my formative years. Now, ironic as it seems, I am saying it like I mean it. And I do mean it. If you would have asked me ten years ago if I ever thought of being a stay at home dad (SAHD), I would have looked at you and said "a what?" I didn't know any SAHD's when I became one in 2006 and I still know very few in the area. And this is for a good reason. There are not many in the US. According to the 2009 US Census, there were 5.1 million women who identified themselves as a stay at home parent. While there were 158,...