I appreciate this thread today. It's nice to have others get irritated when made to feel like you don't do anything while home.
My situation is a bit different. I would love to be able to stay home full time with the kids. But we've chosen to purchase family land, which dictates that I need an income, at this point anyways. One can always hope that dh suddenly gets a huge raise at work!
So I work half time and stay home with my kids, 4 and 3. I've been homeschooling them and both are reading and excelling through kindergarten math and love making projects and science experiments. I get crap at work about what could I possibly be doing when I don't ever work. WTH! I'm always justifying my role in the company and that I accomplish my work when I am here.
I don't want to work more to make more! I want to be with my family! I don't get why people don't understand that. Or at least respect it!!!!