Elizabeth Smart Quotes

I have a fairly normal domestic life.

My wife Jenny and I have four young children of our own.

I'm very boring. I'm a mom. I'm 34 years old.

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

I'm a family man. I like being home.

I have a wife who's a great mom.

I am an ordinary man.

We were like any other family with the same troubles and some of the same happy moments.

Until Ranveer was born in August 2005, three years into our marriage, I was working in Hindi or South Indian films. After marriage, I began learning how to run a house. My mother wanted to teach me the basics, but I was never home. So when my mother-in-law taught me chores, it was hard to adjust.

I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.