When you first have kids, they are all cute and cuddly and smell good, but you can’t wait for them to grow out of each stage. I couldn’t wait until I didn’t have to drag a car seat carrier around any more, then I couldn’t wait until they could walk on their own or until they could make me breakfast in bed and definitely couldn’t wait until they could be taught how to make coffee for me and come wake me up again when it was ready.
We have never been the types to get babysitters or find a friends house for the kids to go to so that we could do things on our own. I have mentioned before that I have always thought of my kids as my hemorrhoids. Always a pain in my ass that just went every where I went and I always figured it would be that way until I had them surgically removed when they were 18. Apparently, the hemorrhoids have shriveled up and are falling off on their own. It is just happening so much earlier than I had expected it to.
Today for example, I had to run an errand that would take about 2 hours. The kids were already up at the pool (of course!), so I swung by to tell them to come home and get changed. To my surprise, they didn’t want to go with us, so they quickly arranged to hang out with their friends, by getting the other parents approval.
I’m torn! Even though it was fabulous to run errands with no crabby kids in the back seat asking me every ten minutes where we were going, why we were going there and when would we be going home, it was kinda sad too. I had been told this would happen eventually, but until it does, you don’t really think about it. It seemed like some far off wonderful dream in theory. I’m sure I will get used to having a real life again, it is just kind of unsettling at the moment.
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