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[quote=Anonymous]With 10 years experience, are you a senior associate, counsel, or partner?  If counsel or partner, then are you in a position to ask for a 6-12 month sabbatical to see if you like being a SAHM.  Say you want to take some time to publish some articles, get some adjunct teaching experience, etc (ie something that you will enjoy, and will also look good for the firm when you get back but that would only be 10-15 hours a week).  Another option is to ask for a 50% schedule.  However, keep your full-time nanny (your husband's salary can afford it), and make clear to the firm that you are available as necessary and you understand that some weeks will still be 65 hours and some will be 20 hours but on average it will be 1000 hours a year and that since you will still have 100% childcare you don't need to be restricted to a 9-1 daily schedule which is useless for a firm attorney.  If you are valuable to your firm, then they hopefully would consider that, especially if you say that you want to go back to 80% when your kids are older and that things are especially hard now with one of them being special needs.  And don't think about this as "will my reduced salary cover the nanny" -- your husband's salary is way too high for that to be an issue.  It should instead be how can I keep myself involved in my legal career that is meaningful to me without the constant juggling/stress when I have multiple kids and a husband who works many hours.
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