What would you do for your children? Climb Mt. Everest? Swim the Nile River? Quit your job?
When Carter was born, it made more sense for me to stay home and care for him then to go back to work. I enjoyed spending time with him. I enjoyed occasionally sleeping in. The problem, however, was that I'm not house wife material. I don't like to clean and really didn't like to fold laundry. Wait, I really didn't like to clean either. This lack of cleaning caused a lot of marital strife.
And then the "solution." I decided I'd go back to work. I'd be making enough to pay a babysitter and then we'd have extra to save to buy a bigger house. We'd have more money to do things with Carter. I looked at my going back to work would give Carter more assets and opportunities. And at the time I thought that was better.
Now looking back I may have done things differently. I may have tried harder to become a good stay at home mom. I may have tried to give my son what was really important, time.
Today, no matter how much I'd love to go back to those days, I feel as though I can't. I'm trapped by bills, car payments, lack of square footage.
Carter will soon be starting his preschool career and as much as I'd love to be the one to take him and pick him up, I will be at work that day.
What would you sacrifice for your child?
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