Nine months ago, I put in my notice at work and started on this Stay At Home Mom adventure. I was surprised at how surprised everyone else was. They asked questions.
Where are you going?
What will you do?
I'm sorry - did you just say that you're staying home with your kids? But... but... what about your career???
There are a lot of glib answers to those questions - answers that sound kind of... well... snotty if you want to take them that way. Answers like, "I wouldn't have had kids if I didn't want to raise them," and "I'm not paying someone else to raise my child!"
Those answers aren't really fair to working moms, or true in my situation, or at all indicative of the reasons my husband and I chose to have me stay home with the kidlets. There's a grain of truth to them, sure, but I do fully and firmly believe that there are a whole ton and a bunch of women out there who do an amazing job working full time, being full-time moms, and really "having it all."
I'm just not one of them.
I'd be lying to you if I told you that I wasn't very, very nervous about what was going to happen when I no longer had the release/escape of working outside the home. I'd be a big fat liar if I said to you that I wasn't worried about a diminished family income, about how I'd single-handedly keep a household, about how I'd structure our days... there was a whole lot of unknown. Still is.
That's what makes this such an adventure.
So come on. Come along with me and I'll tell you what we do all day, every day. I'll tell you how I fill and structure our days. I'll tell you how I run the household on less than $40,000 a year for a family of four in the Greater Milwaukee Area.
Come along with me. Let's have Adventures.
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