Things I miss

I love my kids.  I love my Husband.  I really do.  I love their cuddles, sense of humor, their quirks and their differences.  I especially love watching the Toddler grow up!  I am older now and he is benefitting from our experience with raising kids.  He also benefits from his older siblings who just love him to pieces.  Even though I love my kids, I miss things that I used to have.

I think the thing I miss the most - and you might be surprised by this - is my waist.  Somewhere in the last 10 years of pregnancies and up and down weights, I have misplaced my waist.  I know this because my pants never stay up.  It is embarrassing when I have to hike them up every time I get out of my chair at work.   I've tried belts, but they don't help.  Probably the only thing that will help me is to loose 50 lbs.

I also miss silence.  I enjoy my ride to work, it is quiet.  I enjoy being at work, it is quiet. There is no quiet in my house.  Even when the kids go to sleep I can hear the constant noises from the baby monitor (the humidfier and the space heater go on all night), there is also the snoring husband.  His snoring is worse when he is sick or if he sleeps on his back.

I miss the movies.  We used to go to the movies all the time.  Once I week.  The last movie I saw was...OK I just drew a blank.  I literally can't remember.  I think it was Megamind...or perhaps Tangled....no it must have been more recent. I think I went with the Girl.  Maybe it was Journey 2 the Centre of the Earth?  Is that even a movie?

OK so obviously the next thing I miss is my memory.  I can remember most things, but my long term memory isn't what it used to be.  Last year I even forgot to take the Girl to Sparks on a Monday night.  In the summer I forgot that I signed the kids up for skating, and then remembered 30 minutes before class, and we had to collect everything and head out the door. Somehow we made it on time.  This week we forgot her Sparks homework.  I should really be better at setting reminders on my phone, but I always forget to do that too.

This one I think about alot, and it is kind of a viscious circle.  I miss scrapbooking.  I started when the Boy was a baby.  I scrapped alot about him.  But now it seems as though the more things (and kids) I have to scrap about the less time I have to do it.  I think if I was kid-free I'd have so much time to do scrapbooking, but then I wouldn't have anything to scrap about.   I think the Girl thinks I don't love her as much because she doesn't have a scrapbook, and the Boy points it out all the time!

Anyhow this is a short list, I am sure there are more.  I also know that once the kids are older, I will have more time for these things, and probably (just maybe) get my waist back along with my memory.  Off to hike up my pants and get some stuff done - I just can't remember what I was going to do:)