Often times we try to focus on soaking up the moment because soon it will be gone. We know that in the blink of an eye our children will be grown and we will be the annoying parents that call too often or ask the wrong questions or don’t ask enough questions or just look at them the wrong way. I know it’s going to happen. We all do.
This is not a post about that. This is about all the things I will not miss. Sometimes I find myself envious of my parents.. what must it be like to wake up on Saturday morning and have the day ahead of you with nothing and everything to do and you can do it all or none of it. Sigh.
So allow me a guilty moment or ten to say all the things I won’t miss. Then when I’m done I’ll go back to staring at all four of my babies with misty-eyes… knowing that yes I will in fact wish for these days back when they’re gone.
1. I will not miss having to glance at my own toilet seats before sitting to pee. Gas station, yes. Concert venue, yep. The Pub, absofrickinlutely. My home… I don’t want to. I won’t miss this. I won’t miss not knowing if when I stand up from peeing IN MY OWN HOME if I will feel a dampness on the back of my thighs or not.
2. I will not miss pretending not to care about what they are eating. I’ve talked about feeding my kids a lot - I still think it’s the worst part about parenting. Even though I may have ended a post with an “I can do this dammit” attitude. I still worry about it, I still can become obsessive (shocker, I know) about it. I won’t miss that. AT ALL.
3. I will not miss relying on my parents, my in-laws, and my neighbors every time I want to eat a nice meal out or go away for the weekend or drink a lot at a friends house and come home later than I intended. Yes, I’ve considered that those things might not be as much fun when I can do them whenever I want. But I’d like to try it out, let me be the judge.
4. I will not miss starting and stopping my day by the 7th hour. My Babies wake at 7, sleep at 7. Everything else in our day completely revolves around that. If I want to work out in the morning (hold your chuckles please) then I have to do it in enough time to complete the task and shower and get breakfast ready and check my phone for all the comments you’ve left me.… all before 7. If we want to go to the neighbors or a friends or my parents for dinner it all has to happen in time for us to be home by, you guessed it, 7. Trust me I know I’ve got it made having babies that sleep that great (and it was a lot of work on my part to get them there) BUT the other side of the coin is that when we don’t follow the 7/7 schedule, babies are not so happy. So, I’m just sayin’ I won’t miss that.
5. I will not miss spending more money than I care to admit on things like diapers, formula, frozen waffles and organic milk. Someday in the WAY distant future I will have grandchildren and I will happily buy all the supplies necessary to host my children’s children. But right now, having to go to Sam’s Club as often as I do… yep, won’t miss that.
6. I will not miss sounding like a broken record… keep your hands to yourself, play nicely, are you listening to me, use nice words, use a tissue, I won’t talk to you when you’re whining, for the third time please get your shoes on, NO you may not, don’t run, did you wash your hands, don’t get out of bed again… and repeat.
7. I will not miss the leaking… noses, mouths, butts, cups of milk… they all leak and I am currently in charge of cleaning up the leaks.
8. Ok so those last couple were a stretch and I’ve spent all weekend trying to think of some more good ones. But then, the other night, both girls needed rocked to sleep and it was wonderful. Blissful. And the whole time I was thinking about the draft of this post and the day and the schedule and the runny noses and the meals and the repeating phrases and the pee.…
9. sigh
10. ok fine… but I definitely will NOT miss the pee on my toilet seats.
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