I Stayed Home With My Kids and Now I Regret It

The most expensive decision of my life I made alone. There was no realtor, no car dealer and no travel agent when I chose to leave the paid workforce and become a stay-at-home mom. There was just me looking at my husband, my children (both those inside and outside of my body) and the chaos that was our lives.

At no point did I calculate the lifetime impact of diminished earnings and prospects.

I looked at the year we were in and the following year, and I bolted. No part of my brain sat it...