Comments on: When I Was Young and Childless

By: @childbearing

@childbearing — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:20:41 +0000

Sleep.

Going to movies in the middle of the afternoon because we were walking down the street and saw that something good was showing. This is a rather specific example of the spontaneity theme, which as you’ve mentioned includes reading a book all afternoon just because you feel like it.

Going to good restaurants, being able to linger over the menu, eat slowly and actually stay for dessert and coffee.

Go to shows at the Commodore and dancing to the wee hours of morning.
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By: Early Pregnancy Signs

Early Pregnancy Signs — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:19:12 +0000

Given that I don’t yet have kids, I really like looking that this list. I feel like I’ll be sligggghhtly more prepared when it happens, and know for sure that it’s worth it Thanks for posting.

By: Francesca

Francesca — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:59:26 +0000

Oh, this is another amusing post (just found you through GardenMama). You know, I never gave up my afternoon reading, no matter how messy my house is, or how tired and how busy I am, or what deadline I have, I always get to read 20-30 mins at “nap time” (my boys went from nap time to quite and reading time for mommy, and I’ll do just the same with my youngest).

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:12:20 +0000

I so relate to many of these things!! I was just saying about the sundresses to someone else!

I miss eating out, and as someone said, skipping/winging meals…

But, I wouldn’t trade it for the world what we have with the kids -we’ll recapture all of that stuff in a few short years I suspect…

Great post!

By: *Pol

*Pol — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:03:55 +0000

I relate to all of that….. and making what I want for dinner (or even skipping a meal if I felt like it). I am very tired of planning aroud 4 different stomachs for three meals a day.

By: Summer

Summer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:23:21 +0000

There are so many things I miss. Sleep has to be the biggest one. After that, freedom. Deciding I want to go and just getting up and going. That’s a luxury you don’t realize you have until it’s gone.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:13:13 +0000

going to the bathroom by myself….I mean, I can go in there bymyself now, but then there is all the banging and sreaming if I lock the door, and if I don’t, well, then there are the little ones you come in and want to have a conversation with me, and then comment that it is stinky!

I also miss listening to my music in the car…really loudly. I love angry music every once in awhile…Tool, Limp Bizkit, Metallica. It just seems wrong to scream “break your F^&%ing face tonight!” while I have my children in the car with me.

By: Abbie

Abbie — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:15:58 +0000

Hey, I guess I do have it pretty good!

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:13:38 +0000

I don’t know if I can find much to add, you hit on so many! I wish I could share this with my younger, childless friends who say they’re “ready for kids.” You’re never ready! I laughed when I got to the one on junk food. For everyone who thinks their bodies go to pot when they have kids, I have to agree that I eat better now than I ever did (although I have zero time for exercise). Just today I took my 23-month-old out for lunch to a favorite sandwich place, and I found myself ordering the shrimp and watercress salad with a blueberry smoothie, just so I can be a good role model. I guess it’s paying off though, because he’s not a picky eater, and he loves fruit and broccoli. I don’t know too many mothers at daycare who can say that!

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:37:32 +0000

Definitely expose them to grown up music. My daughter prefers it now. One of her favorite songs since she was a toddler is Parliament’s “Make My Funk the Pfunk.” One morning I found her curled up in my bed listening to Cindytalk’s “Camoflauge Heart” at top volume. She recognizes Sigur Ros by sound, and has asked me to play “The Crying Light” by Antony & the Johnsons “again” after it finished. Of course, Mommy has weird taste in music and now so does she.

What I miss most about pre-Mommy days is simply the opportunity to do whatever I want when I want and to do it with with little or no interruption. The opp to just sit quietly and concentrate on something without someone screaming “Mommy” every 30 seconds or kicking my chair.