What I Miss About Not Being a Parent

I love being a parent, and I love my daughter, but there are some things I really miss from the time in my life before I was a parent. Here are the three that spring to mind without even thinking:

1. Silence.

OMG how I miss silence. It seems even after she’s asleep Ryan (who’s now half deaf has the TV  volume up to 45, or the Wii is going at full blast, there just never seems to be silence anywhere anymore.

Which is really crazy considering I live in the middle of nowhere and before I was a parent I used to go looking for noise. hmm. . . If I only knew then, what I know now. lol

2. Not having to give a play by play of my life.

This is a biggie ~ and can someone please tell me when the “what are you doing” phase ends.  This drives me nuts. I move my pinkie ~ “What are you doing”. Whether I’m not doing anything or I’ve been doing the same thing for the last hour, every 33.2 seconds ~ “what are you doing”.  I never really thought I’d ever have to provide an explanation to someone every time I had to go to the bathroom.

Maybe it’s the rebel in me not liking the fact that I now have to report to a 3 year old my every move and thought.  Thought I grew out of that when I was 18 ~ well I guess I just grew back in.

3. Not being able to focus 100% on anything.

Yeah here’s another ~ this is driving me nuts. I can’t seem to spend more than 49 seconds completely focused on anything. This can make writing articles, blog posts, reading a book, finishing the laundry, just about everything really difficult. I guess I’ve gotten better at getting back into the swing of a task after I’ve been interrupted (for the 694th time) but it is still something I truly miss ~ being able to lose myself in an activity for an extended period of time.