I know exactly what you mean.
i could go out and earn a packet and put my kids in child care. But I'm so happy being at home every day watching them grow and mature. I have the time to spend time at my kids school helping them all. I love it, teaching them and helping them.
We live on the poverty line but hey, were happy. My ex is real materialtstic, he earn't a packet, life is so much nore simpler with little money.