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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Financially, your way better off keeping your 5 hour a week part time job and simply finding something else to occupy your time or interests such as volunteering. [/quote]

This.  You have an ideal situation.  You are able to be home full time and take care of any and all sick days/snow days/holidays/teacher work days plus you still have your foot in the door working very part time at a very well paying job in your field.

I would keep on doing exactly what you're doing for now.  Your husband can use his leave to go with you and the kids on nice family vacations and to visit out of state relatives.

Adding on more hours of work at quite possibly less pay per hour is only going to complicate your life and add a layer of stress that you quite frankly do not need.  You can't compare yourself to a single parent because single parents almost always have full time back up childcare in place.  In your situation, you do not have before/after school in place, you are the one who provides childcare on sick days/holidays/snow days and during the summer.  If you went back to work even PT, 20 hours a week, you would have to find childcare every time a snow day/sick day came up...not to mention summer vacation/winter break/spring break.[/quote]

Perfect advice. [/quote]

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