Absolutely. I just never went back to work. We had, as I mentioned earlier, a sibling group of three older children, all together, and I called them my triplets. They were all talking back and all different ages. When they came to our home, I'd receive calls from the school daily, and I had to put supports in place. Even 10 years ago, support was hard to line up. Today, post-COVID, it's actually getting harder, and there are long lists.
You don't know the children who will be coming into your home, so it takes a lot of time and energy, spending days on the phone, searching and leveraging all of your connections so you can get your kids the right supports they need.
For me, I signed on the dotted line for life, so I was working around the clock, around my own clock, to be available anytime to drop in, because I truly don't believe that any employer, as good a worker and as committed a person as I am, could ever have afforded me the time I needed to go and pick up my kids and be there for them.