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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH valued having a SAHM for our kids. Thankfully, we talked about it before we got married and were in agreement.

He has never had to worry about getting a call about a sick kid. Last minute travel is never a problem. He doesn't have to juggle his schedule to fit in doctors or dental appointments. Snow days are not stressful here- they are cause for celebration! Our house is always clean. Dinner is almost always homemade and ready when he walks in. I had everything done and the kids bathed and in pajamas so that we could eat dinner as family and relax in the evenings. We've never had to scramble to make last minute child care decisions. I've never sent a child to daycare or school sick. Family vacations are easy because we only need to work around his schedule.

All those things make life easier for all of us - my DH, me, and our kids. But above everything else, we were willing to do absolutely anything to avoid daycare or a nanny. We both felt very strongly about this and would have sold our home and everything in it and moved to a lower COL area before resorting to daycare.

We all have different values. Leaving our children in the care of someone other than a parent for 40+ hours a week in those first few years was not something either of us was comfortable with. No amount of extra income would have been worth it.

I went back to work when our kids were older. I am so glad I was home in those earlier years. We've been married close to 30 years.  It's amazing what that kind of perpective does. Money was tight in those early years, but I wouldn't change a thing. [/quote]

Your house is always clean and dinner was almost always homemade and ready when your DH walks in? 
I'm a SAHM-  I frankly don't believe you that your house is/was 'Always' clean. [/quote]

That's because you are the kind of SAHM dcum WOHMs can't understand.  They work and still keep their homes clean.  Yes, even with five young kids, my house was clean. And it wasn't even that difficult. [/quote]

Different poster, but unless you have a daily housekeeper, I suspect we have different standards of "clean."[/quote]

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