If you are a stay at home parent do you ever wish you had a job?

I have been a work from home parent for the past 17 yrs:) Yes, there are times I wish that I had a regular job, but the thought of it makes me sick to my stomach. I don't think I can even get a job making the kind of money I do working from home, but haveing paid vacations and benefits would be a huget bonus! I run a daycare and some days when my kids and husband are home, it makes my job very hard!

I'm a stay-at-home mommy. I've been one for nearly three years now (since a month before my youngest son was born). Do I wish I had a job? Well, at times I do but then I come back to reality and realize that I am doing the most important job that any mother could do. I'm raising my children. My daughter is going to be starting first grade next week and my son still has another 2-3 years to go before he starts school. I worked when we only had one child so that we could pay off our cars and other bills so that we could buy a house and then when our son was born it didn't make sense to pay out all of that money in childcare. Now that our daughter is in school full time, I've considered getting some kind of a job, but my husband doesn't want our son to go to daycare. We had a very bad experience with our daughter when she was in daycare.

I am a stay at home mom but my oldest son is now 3. I love being a stay at home mom and would not want to give it up for the world. In someways I am lucky because I will never beable to go back to work. I am disables but yes there are many times I wish I could just because money is so tight. I can understand your fears. I have not been able to work for almost 10 years now and I do not know how I would handle them telling me I have to go back to work. It is so differant now a days out there and plus I would miss my 2 boys I would not know how to handle it.