Thank you. Stay at moms have to toughen their hides for the casual barbs flung their way. At first it can be a little hard but the pay offs for family life are so great that soon its obvious to everyone.
When I was a kid there was a saying that most people had, "we were poor but we didn't know it". When I got older I found out why. We always had mothers there when we needed her. Fathers worked hard to put food on the table and a roof over our heads. We kids never went without what we needed which are mostly immaterial things.
I recently asked my college-age son if he remembered the time when we had little money (less then 10 yrs ago). He doesn't. His answer told me all I needed to know about the choices I made.