[mplsconservative]

I'm a little late to this conversation, but when I read your post, you could have been describing my family!

My husband (1955) and I (1960) have a son in 2nd grade.

We moved away from Minneapolis this summer to a small town to give him a better education.

I gave up a 15 year career when he was two-years-old to be a stay at home mom.

Now I'm looking for a part-time job and there's definately nothing out here in my field.

I wouldn't change a thing about our decisions. (Wish I could've stopped working when he was born though. I had a contract to fulfill)

[Gabz]

We moved out of Dover, Delaware to a rural area of Virginia for the better education opportunity for our daughter.

I was fortunate in that I was self-employed and basically worked from home so was able to stay home from the beginning. However, I was involved in government relations/politics/lobbying and moving out of the state capitol took away my opportunities. It was fun while it lasted, I really enjoyed taking her with me when I had to make a rare daytime appearance at the Capitol when the Legislature was in session.

Now that school has started again there are 2 reasons for me to find a part-time job.........the first is for my own sanity and the second is I'd like to go back to financially contributing to the household.