Bedtimes

The all important bedtime, good for you good for me. I am not very strict in my schedule, I like to play it by ear. Right now I am blogging and Jon is playing the piano and getting a composition ready for tomorrow. The first is probably not that out of the ordinary for some moms but the latter would be a definiate no no. Piano playing during bed time are you CRAZY! As if we would ever be able to do this kind of thing again. We also returned home around 8ish after spending most of our afternoon at a friends house. Not possible with kids. I rather enjoy being able to come and go as I please. But with children there are bedtimes and nap times, mess with either of those and you are asking for trouble. I love baby sitting young children it is usually the easiest job ever! Parents leave out around 6 p.m., the kids are usually fed and then it's bath time then bed time with lights out around 7:30 p.m. for our younger crowd and 8-8:30 for our older ones. The rest of the time is spent flipping the channels and waiting on the parents to come home. But I have seen how bedtime can go for some parents and it looks a little like this: Screaming hungry children around 5ish, bath time to follow, then screaming running after the kids as a bedtime routine. Once the kids are down around 8ish it is time to clean up dinner, the bathroom, the laundry and try to pick everything up before crashing around 11 p.m. 
Now compair that with my bedtime routine, it's eat dinner when I feel like it, watch whatever television show or movie I want realize I forgot to do some homework assignment, curse, do the homework assignment realize it is almost 11 p.m. and go upstairs to bed and fall asleep to scrubs. This is one of the best times of my life why am I in such a hurry to have children? The answer my friend is that I LOVE kids and can't wait to be a mom and watch my children grow up and turn into the people they are meant to be. Until that day that I am fortunate enough to have children I am going to cherish the life my husband and I have now. Lots of love and hugs! Good night and sleep well. 

Moving!

So my husband and I recently moved, by recently I mean in December. Our home is currently in different stages of put togetherness. Our kitchen is pretty much the way it will be for the next 30 years or so. Our dinning room still needs a table and for some pictures to be hung up, but over all it seems ready. Our living room is about as good as it's going to get for now. Our bedroom and other rooms well they still have boxes needing to be dealt with. Which brings me to why I am thankful for not having children yet. Moving is hard enough with it's packing and unpacking. Moving from one home to another means cleaning, packing, freaking out about a million times about time. I hate moving! It's hard enough with animals that you are trying to keep from escaping, but I cannot imagine children in that mix. First of all I can't lock them in a room while I move the other rooms, that is a little too child abusive even for me. Second I can't have them help lift anything when they are young so they don't do me much good. :0) Plus all the TOYS! It's bad enough I have enough clothes to last me a life time, and the shoes to match but legos and baby toys UGH! That is just the moving out portion! 
Now onto the moving in part. As two adults with no children Jon and I are able to wait and take our time getting our house in order. With kids all things must be put up or stored away immediately! You can't leave your pictures sitting below the spot you want to hang them without fear of them being broken or smashed. Also kids do not do well in chaos, which is what the upstairs is looking like right now. So I am thankful that I can keep some normalcy for Jon and I and not have to hurry up with this getting things put away for the kids. Until I get one of those sweet little babies in my arms I am for now thankful for not having to move with a child!