I hope and pray she can stay home... I have 8 kids, all but one grown, we lived and skimped and ate a lot of beans and rice, but I stayed home. Gave up my nursing career, didn't mind, I would die for my kids... Homeschooled all of them too.

I wish families lived together still - grandma and grandpa and extended family. Makes it easier to make ends meet. My dad grew up in the Great Depression and he said that was the only realistic way - to all live together, eat together, and put funds into the pot to keep the whole family going. In the 1950's suddenly everyone had to have their own place, a mortgage, a car payment, etc etc etc....