This month brought about so many ah ha moments that if I was Oprah I would have my own chat show by now…
Lying in bed one morning my husband and I woke together and just lay there. The mango season finished it had been a long time between chats. He started to tell me about his time at work and had me in fits of laughter. He is an extremely funny man and so I listened intently as he told me his {mis}adventures about doing the Paleo diet and his T25 fitness program.
For half an hour it was just me and him; the kids awake but not having heard us yet. That time it {cue the music and violins} felt like me and him as we were before we were parents. We were relaxed and happy before the crazy love chaos that only having children bring with it. Invading every silent moment and leaving you with nothing but loved filled smiles of next time? That half an hour left me smiling for the rest of the day.
So asked the other day the one thing I miss now that I am a parent? And I could have gone on including things that we all wish for secretly like peeing on my own, sleeping on my own, being able to do errands without a list, eating a full meal instead of left over’s, showering without tying a shoe or being asked where his socks are were forefront on my mind.
But the truth is its time alone with my husband and relaxed time as well as exhausted time. Long chats before getting up and long chats before going to sleep. I miss slothing around the house with him at home. Just being with him being him and me being me. I miss that with every ounce in my soul and yet the one thing I love about being a parent is when I get that alone time with my husband the moments are woven into my heart like gold because being interrupted by that whirl wind of love and chaos that is created by them the ones who will be gone grown too soon, the ones who take us and spread us thin is to good not to bare.
What about you? Whats the one thing you miss but wouldnt change?
xx Deb
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