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Being a Stay-At-Home Mom is My Kind of Feminism

Here’s why.

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daughter was born in mid-June and my life has been filled with an indescribable joy since she came along.

After many discussions and a lot of planning with my husband, I began to carve out my identity as a homemaker a few months ago, leaving a job I’ve held for six years both because my position was being eliminated from my…

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Kristen v.H. Middleton

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Yale English grad, writer, homemaker. Born & raised on the east coast; raising my family in Eastern Washington.

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