I left a legal career to be a mother of staying home for my sons. There is no regret.

• Choosing to quit my job and be a mother of staying home was the biggest decision I made for my career.
• It was also the easiest decision to make. I am filled with magical memories of my children growing up.
• My two sons have grown ready and we share a closeness that would not be there if I had been away.

“What do you do all day?”

That was the question I withdrew by answering every time they made my working mothers and their husbands made me. There is nothing wrong with the question itself, but Tony always felt a little judgmental.

Until I gave birth to my firstborn, I was a finance lawyer at a US legal firm in London. My work as a lawyer in the city took me to Hong Kong, South Africa, Egypt, Russia, the Czecheke Republic and France.

I gave up a flash to be a mother staying home. It was the biggest career decision I would make, but it was also easier and a privilege to have the choice. My husband financially supported our family as I raised children.

I liked to raise my children but was still a job

I changed my business class journey to a double itinerant. My lifestyle of plane living was replaced by traveling in local parks and libraries.

Eating, cleaning and cleaning continuous was largely boring, ruthless and exhausting work – not to mention, lonely.

Being a mother staying at home is the hardest job you don’t pay for. You do it out of love, but it’s still a job.

That said, I have no regrets about choosing my children during my career. Getting to raise my two sons was fulfilling more ways than I could imagine.

For example, being the conclusion of getting my sons unconditional love was healing for me. It allowed the parts of my character – I had crushed throughout my career – to flourish.

Yes, it was the hell that was a tiny exercise, the weeks of my life spent in school at school, and every trip to the doctor when they were hurting, and I couldn’t help them. Then, it was the magical moments.

In their company, I could be a baby again. Stopping to see a slave in a tree was never something I did before the child, but when I heard, “Look, Mom, a slave!” All three of us stopped and took a moment to enjoy this simple pleasure.

There were also times during the momentum when, among the explosion horns and angry drivers, we would hear books on tape like “secret garden”, “borrower” and “the pende that came down to discover” – childhood classics will I had lost in my childhood.

I moved to tears while baby Penguin reunited with his mother. The tears eventually stopped after the 18th reprint. However, moments like these make being a mother staying home never feels like drawing short straw; He felt like winning the lottery.

I couldn’t go back to law, so I changed my career as my kids were more independent

My two sons are 17 and 15 now. We share a closeness that I believe exists only because I was there from day one.

As they sail the intricate years of adolescence, I know them at a deeper level.

From stress over exams to feeling aware of acne, I can confidently support them and help them through these obstacles.

Since they were old enough to walk to school alone, I started preparing for empty nest syndrome. However, it was too late to return to a legal career – the child in me had taken the residence and needed a channel for creativity.

So, I pursued a new written career, and fortunately, it was paid.

Now, when that very common question comes out, “do you do all day?” I have a little different answer: I say, “I write.” Then, add quickly, “Before writing, I was a full -time mother and my three careers, that was more challenging and more fulfilled.”

Angela Zaher is an independent London -based writer. Her articles have been published in The Evening Standard, Delicious, Platinum, Good Houssection, Ori and The Brussels Times. She is a columnist and writes regular ratings of restaurants for the luxury living magazine, Time & Leisure. Find it on Instagram @Angela_zaher.