Something you miss: Freedom pre-children.
Do you remember when you could just run up to the store without packing a diaper bag, loading the car and having to walk out of the store with suckers that end up making everything the monsters touch sticky? Or take it a step further, do you remember going to the store to get some eggs and bread and that would be your dinner until you worked again...even it was a week? Once you have children you have to plan meals...and they can't eat hot dogs and pizza every night...you have to include veggies (EWWW) and fruit and you know the whole food group bs.
How about sleeping in after you stay out too late? Nope, don't even think about it! Not with kids! Oh, unless you're the dad I have learned. "Mom, I'm hungry" or "Mommy, Keegan pooped" always happens well before 8am. Sometimes you can barely muster the strength to pour the cereal, not spill the milk and shove the bowl in front of them with the hopes that the Saturday morning cartoons will babysit for an extra hour...but is it worth it? Usually just as soon as you doze back into a peaceful sleep, dreaming of freedom pre-children, a box of cereal is dumped all over the floor or someone colors on the wall in permanent marker...oh and that list of things that happens when you choose sleep over supervision, they are usually things you only admit to your closest friends!
Ever remember having to find a babysitter when you wanted to go out, go running, take a weekend trip somewhere or search for the perfect outfit? Nope, not unless you were dumb enough to have a dog:) Once you find a babysitter, is it worth it to watch your little ones be nervous and sad that you're leaving them with this strange human being that they have never met? But you REALLY need to get out, so you leave them stranded with the stranger and hope for the best!
Do you remember watching a movie and starting it before 10pm? By the time you get the kids to bed, take a deep breath and still decide you want to stay up late and be tired at work all day is watching an adult movie even worth it? Probably should just start Aladin at 6:30!
Love my children to death, but anyone that doesn't admit to missing freedom pre-children is a) lying b) Lying or c)LYING.
PS: I think the blog challenge is good for me:) I could have wrote a depressing post for this one, but instead I smiled the entire time I was remembering pre-children:)
Um...it's true. I miss it too. The part about going to the grocery store pre-kids? Yeah. It was kind of a lot easier. I'm lucky that Veezle sleeps in right now...but for how much longer? And I've only been truely hung over one time since before I was pregnant...and it was a NIGHTMARE that I've never repeated since. It's acutally easier to fight through a work day hung over than it is try to parent hung over. (Because we care more about doing a good job at parenting than at our for real big girl jobs perhaps?)
ReplyDeletePS - I didn't know the part about not feeding them hotdogs and mac n' cheese every night. I feel like I'm going to have to start taking this whole parenting thing seriously one of these days.