The New Generation of the SAHM.

Before I even get started I want to make myself perfectly clear that this has nothing to do with the "mommy wars". I think they are stupid and pointless, the little ecards that you see saying this about the working mom or that about the stay at home mom annoy me. We all parent differently, period. There is no working mom that parents the same as another working mom and there is no stay at home that parents the same as another stay at home mom. For me, that is where the mommy  war ends. When I say the "new generation of stay at home moms" I mean - what it's like to be a stay at home in this economy. I proudly call myself a SAHM and wear the acronym proudly, but how much of a stay at home am I? I get up before dawn, leave my house in the dark, go to work, and get home just when my littles are waking up. And no, I don't make near to what I used to make when I was a working professional but every little bit makes a difference these days. I belong to a playgroup of college friends and we all say that we are SAHM's but each and every single one of us works too. One is a successful photographer, one is the queen of crafting and make the most delicious cake pops you will ever have and she markets these skills. The point to my ramblings is this - does a June Cleaver stay at home exist anymore or has the state of the economy driven home that even SAHM's have a job that pays in money and a job that pays in a priceless benefits package as well.