Any SAHPs whose kids are all in school?

I was hoping to ask how you came to the decision to continue to stay home after your kids were all at school. I think it’s 100% valid if that needs to be said, between the school holidays and summer vacation and kids being sick and school ending by mid afternoon and drop off/pick ups and extracurriculars I can see how you’d be busy anyway - plus any housework or whatever else is on your plate.

Just curious for those who decided to make that their life path what things you considered when coming to that decision? Did you have a career you enjoyed / cared about but chose to give up? Do you think you’ll ever return to working outside the home? Do you have any concerns about building up your own financial independence or retirement etc that you’d be building if you were working outside the house?

I think those are my main considerations. I’ve known a few people who were stay at home moms and got divorced later in life and then didn’t have a retirement of their own and financially struggled.

I also really love my job. I’ve been a stay at home mom to my 2.5 year old since he was born and I’m due with our third near Christmas. We also have a 9 year old. The plan originally had been for me to return to work when our youngest was 8 months old. Then we saw daycare prices were WAY higher than we thought ( a lot has changed since my 9 year old was in daycare). We discussed me staying home for an additional two years (so 2 years 8 months after she’s born, about 3 years from now, I’ll have been a stay at home mom for about 5 years at that point). But my husband mentioned he’d be happy if I was a stay at home parent … permanently. Which is not something we’ve ever discussed before.