Top 5 Best Things You Appreciate About Having Kids When They Spend the Night Away

I love my girls more than anything in the world. More than TV, more than the intertubes, more than brownies. That totally says that I love them UH LOT.

My girls are 5 and almost 4 – 18 months apart and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love that we planned had them so close together. They are their own best friends. They bring joy to our lives. We love seeing the world through their eyes. Nearly everything we do, we do it for them. (I hear the Bryan Adam song in my head, don’t you? sucka)

This past weekend, my mom asked to have the girls stay with her overnight at my aunt’s house after Thanksgiving dinner. We said yes right away thought about it and asked the girls if they’d like to stay. Their answers were an immediate, “YES!” much to my husband’s shagrin. (“But I took the day off for them!” shut it, sir…)

I try to find the good side in everything, even leaving the children for a whole 24 hours with their Gramma. Sure we’d miss them, but we’d have a few hours to ourselves. I made a list of the Top 5 Things You Appreciate About Having Kids When They Spend the Night Away:

1. Sleeping in2. see: #1
3. see: #2
4. see: #3
5. see #4

One morning without a kid climbing into your bed with pee-soaked pajamas.

One morning without a kid asking, “When are you gonna geeeeeet uuuuuuuupppp????”

One morning without having to get up to serve pancakes, then to have the kids come tell you they’re not going to eat the pancakes you slaved over microwaved because they “have a little brown on them.”

One morning to get lay in bed and turn on the TV to music videos on VH1 or CNN HLN instead of having to watch Special Agent Oso and debate stabbing your ears with hot, rusted wire hangars.

When you get the big things in life like kids, it’s the little things you appreciate.

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