Awesome. Several of my co workers (in all kind of different positions) stayed at home with young kids and then joined workforce. It’s fairly typical. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Sounds like a very smart decision! Excellent. Don’t know about your particular state/schools but if you are good, you can be on preferred lists like they will request you and also keep an eye on long-term sub positions when people are on maternity leave or similar leaves. That would be probably the best for you to determine if you want to go into teaching (regardless school or college) as it would be involving more teaching tasks (planning grading dealing with parents) than random subbing

Woohoo!!!