Why I decided to be a stay at home wife

[Sarcelle]

Agh, I remember well the idyllic visions I had of the life of the SAHM, the immaculate house, the marvelous dinners at the beautifully set table, the adorable baby cooing up at us or sleeping angelically. Then I entered the delivery room, and reality intruded.

I know several mothers who truly feel that their vocation is to be a SAHM and possibly even home school their children, but because their DH’s jobs do not provide affordable medical insurance, they are compelled to work to provide it.

Well there’s the ideal and there’s reality.

The Christian blogosphere is awash with bloggers who opine that the proper place for any proper Christian woman is being a homeschooling, skirts and dresses only, quiverfull housewife who cooks everything from scratch from organic wholesome ingredients for pennies a day.

No allowance for single moms, women who work outside the home and single women.