Stay at home Mum: a wife who manages a household and looks after the children while her husband earns the family income.
Which doesn't sound quite as liberal woman's front as perhaps I would like. However, I realised last night that after 7 months of extracting myself from work I am now at the point where I can class myself as a stay at home Mum.
When I was first pregnant with Finn I thought that after 9 months I would be striving to get back in to the cut and thrust of my IT job. Then he arrived and everything changed. We decided pretty early on that we would have a brother or sister for Finn with a small age gap. We were very fortunate and Isla arrived when Finn was 17 months. We decided that part of the plan to emigrate to Australia would facilitate me being able to stay at home with the children until they are at school. After this time I hope to be able to do something with photography. I have until Isla is 5 and at school to get some sort of photography qualifications and experience to allow me to get some part time freelance type work to fit around the school hours.
Things have changed so much and I want to be the one taking them to school and picking them up. Taking them to clubs and just generally being around consistently.
The fact that I have finished work and now fall into the demographic of SAHM shouldn't come as a huge surprise as we have orchestrated our lives over the last 2 years to get to this point. However, last night at about midnight it suddenly hit me. We have achieved it and I am so happy to be able to do this for them.
