[Devora]

I'm sort of a SAHM in that I work out of my home as an evaluation consultant for non-profits. However, I find that I still have to use child care 3 days/week in order to do my work. I could get by without it, but then I would be able to do a fraction of the work and have a fraction of the income.

You can find things to do (tutoring is great; Pampered Chef rep would be easy to control scheduling on; editing if that's a skill set you have; grantwriting if that's a skill set you have). However, I personally think it's important to seriously consider what your physical, emotional, and mental energy is like at the end of the day. Unless your kids are unusually self-contained/self-entertaining, it's hard to work when they're up. So until they're in school that means working during naptimes and after bedtime. I do it when I have to, but I find it's very hard to make myself sit down at the computer and focus in an intense way at the end of the day. (Like right now when I should be working but instead popped online for a break.)