Of course you are tired! You have a toddler and an infant!!! Unfortunately, caring for young children is 90% unrewarding activities (doing laundry, changing diapers, cleaning the house, changing diapers, trying to feed a child who wants to paint the walss with his food, changing diapers, doing more laundry...)
Even people who want to be SAHMs don't put those on the top of their list of reasons. Anyway, if you had your children in daycare you would have to pay for that so while you may not be "earning" money, you are saving your family at least $800/month which is almost $10K per year. And your kids get the bonus of being raised by their parents at such a young, formative age.
You will probably feel better after returning to work, because you will be earning SOMETHING and I think some personal time alone (even if it is just at a job) is very important for new mothers (and not so new mothers too), or fathers, ANYONE who is the primary caregiver for their children.
I had a similar feeling when I was staying at home with my kids. Staying at home is so much harder then going to work, trust me! Do not feel bad for Harley, he actually has the easy job in your house (earning money).
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Even people who want to be SAHMs don't put those on the top of their list of reasons. Anyway, if you had your children in daycare you would have to pay for that so while you may not be "earning" money, you are saving your family at least $800/month which is almost $10K per year. And your kids get the bonus of being raised by their parents at such a young, formative age.
You will probably feel better after returning to work, because you will be earning SOMETHING and I think some personal time alone (even if it is just at a job) is very important for new mothers (and not so new mothers too), or fathers, ANYONE who is the primary caregiver for their children.
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