What do you miss?

Doesn’t that hotel room look nice? Do you remember what it was like to actually sleep. No, I’m not talking about the kind of  “sleep” us moms get, but the real, before you had kids, sleep. I miss those days! I remember coming home from classes, going to work, coming home, grabbing something to eat and falling asleep on the couch until the hubs came home. I loved going to sleep when it was still day light out and waking up when it was dark. (sigh)

Don’t get me wrong, I love being a mom but I also love to sleep. So here is my problem. As soon as I became a mom I realized that having down/quiet time was nearly impossible. All day, every day I was going, doing, cleaning, cooking (you get the picture) for my daughter…there was no time left during the ‘day’ to have any peace and quiet. So what did I start doing? I started staying up way too late and becoming a night owl. I love getting on the computer and ‘talking’ to all my bloggy buddies, doing posts, checking out new fun posts, learning how to do new things and ahh…the quiet! All I hear is the sound of my tired fingers typing away. And since I started doing more reviews and giveaways I’ve been staying up even later. And let me tell ya, this makes for one crabby mama the next day. Walking around with my contacts suctioned to my eyeballs and needing more coffee and RedBull than is recommended to function just for the first two hours of my morning. My morning? I can call it that right?! lol

Here is my dream: leaving the kids at my parents house for the weekend, leaving my husband at home for the weekend and getting a nice, pretty hotel room all.by.myself! I can sleep all I want, eat whenever/whatever I want, wipe only my own butt and nose, pick up after myself, watch whatever I want on the tv without having to pause it every five seconds for another kid and another question. Plus being able to blog all night long without worrying about what time I have to get kids off to school and breakfast for everyone without so much as a thank you. Ahh…just one weekend! And then I wake up to the sounds of screaming, fighting, noisy, hungry, crying, crabby, need-to-be-changed and wiped children.

I’m sure my parents had the same dreams and now they have it. I am grown and have been out of the house for some 10 years now and my older sister is the only one living there but she is never home so that doesn’t really count. They have the house pretty much to themselves and all the quiet one person can handle without having to have padding on their walls. But I also know that when that day comes for me I will be sitting here in this very chair typing about how quiet the house is and how I long for the sounds of little feet running across the floor and kids fighting. Ahh..parenthood! Gotta love it!

What is something you miss about your pre-mommy life?