March 8, 2009 | I miss you

Sometimes this is how I feel about my life before kids. I miss my endless hours of wated time. I miss going to the movie theatre. I miss cooking extravagant meals like butternut ravioli. I miss sleeping in. I miss having a waist line. Yes, I miss the old me.

But then I spend an evening sewing L's costume for her character in the school play, and Mae behaves herself at the dinner table for once. And then they both cuddle up with me on the couch and I get teary eyed watching an episode on tv where a baby boy is rejected at birth ... and it's all so worth it. I wouldn't trade this life in a heart beat.