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Budget wise, staying at home has never been good for my family. I have a degree in Computer Science, and financially it would have always been better for me to work full-time.

I think it probably depends on how much money you make. I know if I was working I’d be making 6 figures with stock options.

However, we don’t regret that I quit working. My husband and I have always thought it was better for the kids/family to have 1 parent at home. It wasn’t a financial decision.

My husband and I have alternated over the years. When the kids were younger, he worked and I worked at home and from home. Now that the boys are grown, Husband has his own business and I went back into the workforce for the health insurance. In another year or so, I should be home again, working at and from home as his business grows large enough to support us.

My SIL has a great 6-figure career; her husband has been home with the kids since they were born. They’re wonderful kids and they are one happy family.

I’m retired Army. I had my career first and then and started a family at age 35. The Army was a LOT easier, LOL!

I could not agree with you more. My wife taught school before we started our family. If she had continued to teach our income would be twice what I make now.< But we agreed before we started our family that she would stay home and I would work. At the time I didn't know we would have three daughters or decide to home-school them. I simply agreed to work as hard as I could to provide for the family God gave us. That is what I have done for the past 13 years. God has been faithful to meet our needs - we have a home, food on the table, and our health. We don't have new cars, take dream vacations, or even have cable TV or a Wii. But our daughters cook, sew, bake, knit, read, play multiple instruments, draw, run, love to bike, have vivid imaginations, can converse with adults, and are available to be "mother's helpers" to new moms that need an extra hand during the day. And my good wife is the one teaching them how to do what they do and to do it with excellence. How? By modeling it right here in our home. Our girls don't pay to learn how to do these things, they do them as a matter of their life in our home.

Does my wife miss her career? Not really. She says she traded her classroom of 22 kids for a classroom of 3. You couldn't get her to work outside the home (for now) if you put a gun to her head. And she has my total, unwavering, unconditional support.

Big Truck