If your mother was a housewife, looking back do you think it was a good thing or would you have preferred that she worked outside the home?

I am contemplating becoming a housewife but I feel that children do not really appreciate you as they get older and actually feel like you wasted your time being at home . Most people I know that had mothers that were housewives would either see it as a status symbol i.e that their father was rich enough to keep their mother at home or that it was a waste of her time and they would never wish that on themselves. What do you that had housewife mothers think looking back?