January 2012 Weddings
MeganNN12
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Stay at-home Mom
DH and I talked everything over and both agree I should be a stay at home mom. We are not sure how everything is going to work out money wise, but we feel this is the BEST choice. Everything will fall into place. I have faith in that.
On the plus side my principal texted me telling DH to check his email and to make sure I see him in the morning because she is sure I am going to be happy 
YAY!!!!!
Re: Stay at-home Mom
Wow, that's great that you too can make it make. DH and I could never. He doesn't make enough money at the hotel he is working at and even if he got a teaching job making $45000, it would still be hard to live just on that. NJ is a very expensive state. We'll both be working but my mom is going to be with the baby so I'm happy about that.
It sounds like your principal is going to offer him the job. That's amazing!
Married the love of my life on 1-21-12. Our princess arrived on 5-28-13.
We can make it on 45000 here. It will be tight, but that is what J is now making. We are planning on not even using my income when going for a mortgage, so that I could be a stay at home mom in the future. That way, if I get a teaching job, it can all go into savings.
We had already discussed that he would be a stay at home dad. I have a career I love, and he has a job, not a career.
Yay for being able to stay home. And yay for your DH!!! Sounds like he got the job!!!
We've done the math and I can stay home but it's going to be super tight. I'm trying to find something small and work from home to supplement like online tutoring for 5-10 hours a week or something. We are currently putting my paycheck in savings but it's coming out more than I'd like for all the medical bills between his knee surgery and my baby bills.
I'm envious! Staying at home is just not an option for us right now. If I didn't have my bills it would be do-able but very very tight. I want to be able to buy my kids the things they want without having to rob peter to pay paul, ya know?
However, I've already told DH that if childcare ends up eating up half of my monthly take home pay then I will be doing what I can to cut my hours to part time and stay home with the baby while DH is at work.
We will figure it out.
We are going to be tight, very tight. We have steps we are going to take to make it as doable as possible. DH is going to look for a higher paying teaching job for next school year. Also one in his home town (I say that because there are barely any jobs in his hometown). If we can make that happen we will be making between $3,000 and $5,000 more each year, plus we would saving $350/ month on gas expenses. In addition DH or I could get a part time job at night. I like the online tutoring idea, I could probably do that. DH also said maybe I could do AVON, but who knows.