It's official, as of yesterday. I'm joining the ranks of fellow stay-at-home moms. We made the decision just recently, after our affordable daycare option fell through. After exploring the other daycare options, we realized that it just didn't make financial sense for me to return to work. Daycare would have been most of my monthly salary, along with the other increased expenses that would have resulted from a return to work.
Thus, the writing appeared on the wall. I submitted my resignation yesterday morning with a mix of sadness and excitement. Sadness because it really had been a very good job for me (even if a little mundane) and I enjoyed the people that I worked with. Excitement because I was finally going to get to be home with my boys and get to participate with them in things that I had been missing out on while I was at work in the morning, things like playgroups, library story time, and women's ministry at church.
I know that the path we are choosing to have me home with the boys isn't the easiest path. There remain financial difficulties. There will be loneliness since I won't have the outlet of a job to satisfy daily adult interaction (with people other than my husband). There will be the normal trials and tribulations that come along with raising children. It will be days filled with running the home and running errands to help make it a bit easier on my hard-working husband. Days filled with Clifford and Sesame Street, books, Legos, playing outside, nursing Owen, changing diapers, and loving on our boys. Shaping our kids to be responsible, loving, caring human beings. What higher calling could there possibly be?
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Love this post, Naomi :). I can hear your heart in it! Maybe it's because I come from exactly the same place...financial difficulty, raising boys, errand running, nursing, etc. Exhausting, fun, sometimes dirty and definitely worth it!
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