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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I know several moms that chose to stay at home once the kids were out of the house for a full 6.5 hours each day. I always found it odd that they worked from 7am-6:30pm--with full-time nanny for the first 5 years, but then once the kids hit school it was about spending time with them. Ironic. [/quote]

I have always worked and there's no end in sight for me to SAH unless we win the lottery but I completely understand the above situation. I found is so much easier to balance work and home when the kids were babies through preschool with a nanny at home. Now, my kids are in elementary school and it is becoming very difficult. The evenings and weekends are all about activities, homework, and playdates while before it was just quality time with me and my kids. If I can take a day off, I can't just send the nanny home happily with an extra paid day off and be with my kids because I can't take them out of school. They are just now starting to encounter more difficult situations where they need advice. I'm having a hard time juggling all the logistics and the house has gone to hell. The more I write the more depressed I get because I don't think this is going to get any easier.

If I could afford i,t I would throw in the towel on my career and call it a day. I wouldn't give a rat's furry behind whether other moms were wondering what I did during the day. [/quote]

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