Staying Home

I spent six years in college. That's right it took me six years to finish school. I couldn't make up my mind what I wanted to study. Everything seemed interesting. I eventually decided on Early Childhood Development. I loved the concepts, the theories and the knowledge of how those little minds work. I was fascinated by it. When I graduated I took a job as a lead teacher at The University of Alabama's Child Development Center. Wow- it was exhausting. Teaching and working with children is the most important underpaid job in the world and every teacher knows it. Then I got married and moved on from there to work in a Montessori preschool that I had worked in while in college. My husband and I wanted to start a family and we wanted me to stay home with our children. I worked at the preschool for five months and then it happened. We found out about the precious miracle growing inside of me. We were so excited!!! We decided that after the school year was over I would stay at home and prepare for our little boy Ezekiel to come into the world. That's where we are now. We are anxiously awaiting his arrival. I have been at home now since June. Many don't understand why it is so important to me to stay at home with my children; I have a college degree, I am smart, I am ambitious. The bottom line is that I don't want someone else raising my children. I want to be the biggest influence. I want them to be with me and my husband more than with anyone else. I believe it is what's right for our family and what the Lord wants from me. The world doesn't make it so easy by the way the "housewife and mother" role are portrayed. We are smart women and this is our choice.