Being a Parent

Just a sweet little saying I saw on FB and had to steal:

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There comes a point in life when fun no longer means clubbing, drinking, or being out till 4am, or thinking about yourself. Fun means Disney movies, family dinners, bedtime stories, long cuddles, a messy house, sleeping by 10pm and hearing little voices say “I love you.” Becoming a parent doesn’t change you, it makes you realize that the little people that YOU created deserve the very best of your time.
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I absolutely love this statement. I am surprised at the type of parent I am. I was always a very neat, organized, ok, obsessive person. I get anxious in parking lots. I get anxious ordering a pizza over the phone (I just don't do it). I get anxious when I'm driving when I don't know where I'm going.

With Nicholas, my world is just different. Better. The best. I come home from work. I sit/lay/ crawl around on the floor with him until it is time for him to go to bed. I don't touch my phone, the tv, the computer. I just don't care about those things. He and Nick are my world, and honestly I forget about everyone and everything else.

I don't care that my house isn't clean, that there are handprints on the glass door, on the fridge. That there is dust and dog hair in the corner. It just doesn't matter.

What matters is that my healthy, chunkamunka, baby boy is happy. Because I take being a parent very seriously. Because I don't want to miss a single second of him growing up. Because he is growing so fast and he does something new every day.

Because friends that don't keep in touch, that don't care to ask how I am, that aren't there when I go through something difficult, just do not matter anymore.

That is all!

xoxo