Stay at Home Mom

I have been thinking a lot lately about people calling Mitt Romney's wife "lazy" or "never worked a day in her life" because she stayed at home to raise her 5 kids. I really don't understand that logic. How is raising 5 kids not work? I have had the opportunity to be a stay at home Mom and that is a decision that both my husband and I have made.  We carefully weighed our options and thought it would be best if I stopped working and stayed home with Chloe. We would be making quite a bit of money right now if I decided to work, but we thought, for our family it would be more important to stay at home. But this decision doesn't make me lazy or even "not hard working." Some parents decide that they are both going to work and put their kids in child care, some parents have to work in order to pay the bills, and yes they are hard working. But don't judge people for the decision to stay at home with their kids.