Pros and Cons of losing ones job

Been thinking about this for quite a while now.  Each pro leads to a con and visa versa but let's see how we get on shall we?  Wow, I sound very 'let's listen with mother'.

Cons:

• No money!  Or rather, LESS money.  
• Confidence takes a nose dive 'what do people think of me?'
• Going to movie vs. dvd.
• Major con for me, the wife, he can grow a beard.
• For him.  An increasingly lazy wife.
• Kids.  They never, EVER, stop.
• Nowhere to go for a 'rest'.

. . . . it would appear that is all I can think of which is reassuring in itself.

Pros.

• For himself, he can GRRRROOOOOOWWWWW a beard.  He is the kinda of fella that could've done with shaving twice a day.
• Freedom to enjoy the weather, whatever that weather may be.  No hoping it'll be sunny on Saturday because, well, you're now at home with the freedom to enjoy the weather.
• Wearing what you want.  Back to those band t-shirts and feck the actual shirt.
• Learning new stuff.  
• Kids.  Okay, so this could go on the con list too but mostly kids are cool.
• The opportunity to really learn how to cook.  Proper grown up food, not just pasta and frozen fish.
• Closeness to each other.  Okay, so you're getting close whilst panicking over that bloody credit card bill but you're still closer than you were when he went out to work and you stayed at home wishing it was you who was going out or he appreciated what you did in the home.  See, 'an increasingly lazy wife' above.
• Doing homework with the boys.
• Playing with the boys.
• Teaching them how to go on their bike by themselves with no stabilizers.
• Remembering why you love each other.  Now that we have more time together alone during the day, rather than the snatched cranky hours at the end of the (long working) day you get to have a laugh.  Go for a walk, go for coffee.
• For me.  A chance to make my dream come true.  That dream being to have my own company that will pay for a holiday.  That's right, all I want is a holiday.  Don't want to take over the world just want to get on a plane and go somewhere sunny.

For now, I think that's it.  But that's not a bad list, right?  If the worse I can come up with is lack of money for holidays then we're all going to be okay.  To my lovely, annoying, increasingly hairy husband you need to relax and enjoy the here and now.  Tomorrow will take care of itself.  You are not a 'loser' because you lost your job.  So did 414,000 other Irish people.  You make the best baked ham, the best roast beef and a fantastic roast chicken . . .  actually, some veggies wouldn't go amiss.  

You piss me off, you make me laugh and your kids adore and idolise you.  Sit back and take pride in the wonderful job you're doing as a father.  Not everything is about money, we have enough to keep bobbing along . . if we play our cards right and I can sell 4,000 cupcakes we can go on holiday after all.  You are a wonderful dad and if you were working and giving your all to a company, as is your wont, they wouldn't see you and get to know you as well as they do.  Chillax - as the lads would say.