Free at last?

I quit my job today - and I feel really good about it. Okay, I feel pretty good about it. ALRIGHT - it scares the crap out of me.

I am really looking forward to staying home with the kids though - but not so much to the slave labour that I will now become at home! haha.
I've always wanted to be the mom that drives kids on all the field trips and to their various team games etc. (and now that I drive a minivan with a tv and 6-dvd changer I'll be the coolest mom and all the kids will want to travel with me! (shhh - don't pop my bubble). Maybe it's because my parents worked full time and were never available to do that kind of thing for me and my brothers that it seems so important to me now... (I'll psychoanalyze myself later during my leisure time, thank you very much.)

But whatever: The main thing is that now I get to spend more time with my kids instead of shipping them off somewhere else everyday... I'm really tired of freaking out when my regular arrangements don't pan out, or when daycare is full. I hate being in a panic to stow my kids somewhere so that I can go to work - there's just something wrong with being desperate to get rid of your kids (and for you people that have to live like that, you know what I mean - it's a neccessary evil that most of us can not seem to escape. It doesn't feel very good, but what other options are there? It's even harder when your kids are sick... trying to pawn them off on someone else (potentially making them and their families sick too) when all they really want is to be at home with mom. Am I the only one that feels guilty taking time off work for that? No matter how ill my kids (or me, for that matter) are, and no matter how justifiable my absence is, I always feel like the staff at the office think I'm lying about it... I dread getting a call at work to tell me I have sick children and then having to distribute my work burden to the other people in the office.
I'm so glad I won't have to do that anymore!

Not too many people are fortunate enough to have the option of staying home - I am very grateful that I do have that opportunity and ability.
(although we may have to sell the quad to make it work. hardy har har)