Yeah, that's an awesome article. Out of curiosity, is your wife a SAHM? She still deserves a break, but if she works outside the home too, then your friends and family giving her a hard time deserve even more of a butt kicking.
My dad had trouble finding work when I was growing up, so I have quite a few awesome memories of him from my childhood. He pretty much raised me until I was a teenager, so that's probably why I'm so weird. =x Something my mom and I used to do to him that was really funny, was if he fell asleep in front of the tv in his recliner, he'd often start to snore. So we'd dig out the nail polish and paint his toes. Most of the time it'd take him a day or two to even realize we'd done it. And one time he answered the door in his bare feet and purple toe nails to one of his firefighter buddies lol.