article_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms writes in the essay's introduction that Steven Nelms can't afford his wife to be a stay-at home. '
article_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms penned a moving essay celebrating his wife and everything his wife does for their family as a stay-at-home mother to their two-year-old son Ezra . '
article_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms told the Independent Journal Review that Steven Nelms wife, Glorianna, stays at home with the couple's two-year-old son Ezra because of high child care costs.
article_snippet.sent: But Steven Nelms said working has always been a part of Gloriana's life, who had been employed since Steven Nelms was 14 and was contributing to Steven Nelms family's income when Steven Nelms was 17. '
article_snippet.sent: In the essay Nelms says Nelms 'can't afford' Nelms to be a stay-at-home mother, and then breaks down the monetary value of all that his wife provides. 
article_snippet.sent: Nelms said that Nelms felt 'ashamed' for every time Nelms felt his wife didn't have 'as much right to our income as I do' and that Nelms income 'doesn't even come close to covering what his wife does for Nelms Nelms estimates that the childcare Nelms wife provides is worth $36,660 a year, the annual-salary for a full-time nanny.
article_snippet.sent: Nelms also estimates this Nelms does $5,200 worth of cleaning a year, $12,480 of cooking, and $13,520 for buying groceries and running errands.
article_snippet.sent: After adding that Nelms helps deal with the family's finances and does the laundry, Nelms concludes that Nelms 's annual salary should be $73,960. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms writes that Steven Nelms 'can't afford' Steven Nelms wife to be stay-at-home mom .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms calculates the monetary value of what his wife contributes to the home, including child care, cooking, cleaning and running the finances .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms concludes that his wife's annual salary should be $73,960 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms writes that Steven Nelms was 'ashamed' that his wife ever 'felt like his wife doesn't have just as much right to our income as I do'
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Steven Nelms said his wife has worked since his wife was 14 and Steven Nelms wanted to make sure his wife felt appreciated .