The funny thing is, at first I thought I had nothing to say. But, as I looked at just last week--a nothing special kind of week--I realized that even little things like the examples below, would have been so drastically altered if there were kids in this house.
That is so true. Just about everything in my day couldn;t be done if I had kids. It takes me about an hour to get ready in the mornings and that's just me. I try to leave early to avoid traffic. I work long hours at present. I frequently have to go to arts events in the evening as part of my job (not a hardship!!!) and never have to think about babysitters. I get home, we scrabble together dinner (make an effort mainly because of my 21 year old stepson but he'll soon be in Europe), I sometimes spend hours talking on the phone to someone, it's all I can do to get myself to bed by a reasonable hour with everything that seems to need to be done, sometimes I have a long bath, and at weekends I need heaps of quiet time, but often we have social engagements (we can go to as many as we want without babysitter hassles), if I need new clothes or we feel like takeout food we pretty much just do it (even though we shouldn't). Plus our house is really child unfriendly - open plan, staircase, full length glass windows, laptops etc everywhere, cleaning fluids in low accessible cupboards but we don't have to worry (until a friend's child arrives for a visit then it's constant supervision)...
I've so loved all your responses to this thread - thanks for participating with such enthusiasm. Reading them all makes me so grateful to be CF! I had lots of smiles reading through them all...
