Go back in time about 14 months and you would hear me say, "I never want to be a stay at home mom." It's true! I never wanted to stay at home. I always dreamed of leaving work and heading straight to daycare to pick up my child. In the summers we would have a blast together, and eventually when that child got to kindergarten they would come to school with me. My dream worked out really well at first. I loved leaving school and going to daycare to pick up my smiling little man. We had the best time after school, and the weekends were a blast.
Then....we started paying tons and tons of money each month to daycare. Every month we would wonder, "Where did all of our money go?" Daycare is no joke! We were paying almost as much as our mortgage. The money thing we could handle. I thought we would just eat out less and do more staycations around Raleigh. Then on the weekends we would wonder, "Sunday already? Oh my goodness this house is a disaster! When is laundry going to be done?" So around spring time I was sick of wondering all of these things and decided maybe I should give this whole SAHM thing a try.
I told my boss around April. This was really hard for me. I LOVED my job. I had so much fun every single day. I loved the people I worked with and the kids were a hoot! But when we sat down to discuss finances my job wasn't paying the bills! It was literally just paying daycare, and maybe the monthly groceries.
In May we wrote our last daycare check! That was a great day. Liam stopped going to daycare at the end of the May. Grandma came to stay with him my last two weeks of work. We were so thankful she was able to do that. It lifted a huge weight off my shoulders and allowed me to clean out my classroom on my time, with no rush of a daycare bill.
I'm writing this 4 months into being a SAHM and I absolutely love it! It's so fun. I'm so thankful we are in a situation where this is possible for us. Would I eventually like to go back to teaching? Probably! But for now, I'm enjoying my new role as a full time mommy!
Then....we started paying tons and tons of money each month to daycare. Every month we would wonder, "Where did all of our money go?" Daycare is no joke! We were paying almost as much as our mortgage. The money thing we could handle. I thought we would just eat out less and do more staycations around Raleigh. Then on the weekends we would wonder, "Sunday already? Oh my goodness this house is a disaster! When is laundry going to be done?" So around spring time I was sick of wondering all of these things and decided maybe I should give this whole SAHM thing a try.
I told my boss around April. This was really hard for me. I LOVED my job. I had so much fun every single day. I loved the people I worked with and the kids were a hoot! But when we sat down to discuss finances my job wasn't paying the bills! It was literally just paying daycare, and maybe the monthly groceries.
In May we wrote our last daycare check! That was a great day. Liam stopped going to daycare at the end of the May. Grandma came to stay with him my last two weeks of work. We were so thankful she was able to do that. It lifted a huge weight off my shoulders and allowed me to clean out my classroom on my time, with no rush of a daycare bill.
Writing our last check to daycare!
Future Liam - - when you are reading this someday please know I loved your daycare. You had the best teachers there. I have a picture of them somewhere on this computer but I can't find it right now!
I'm writing this 4 months into being a SAHM and I absolutely love it! It's so fun. I'm so thankful we are in a situation where this is possible for us. Would I eventually like to go back to teaching? Probably! But for now, I'm enjoying my new role as a full time mommy!
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