All This Spare Time: What Will We Do? Get Very Romantic.

I arrived home around 11am and my wife was sitting at the dining table furiously typing away on her Apple Mac Pro. In the background I heard the sound of undercover boss coming from the tv.

Wait now, OMG! Where is Bing, Justin Fletcher, or You Tube kids? This doesn’t feel right! For what feels like the first time in four and half years childrens TV was not on the TV during daylight hours!

The sound of our four year old twins not playing or arguing over toys or consistently saying I’m hungry, I’m-thirsty, I want this or that, I’m bored! It was all missing! You would think awesome! Peace and quiet, but no it was weird and strange, and I actually felt a little bit lost and unemployed! Aww I know big hugs for me!

So I proceeded to make some lunch, sit down, watch some tv and have cup of tea in peace. If I’m honest after about an hour I didn’t really know what to do with myself. I was beginning to count down the minutes to when we would be picking up the girls. I’m not sure if that is sad or not? The reality is trying to accept that the girls are growing up. Which they most certainly are.

Finally 3 o’clock came and we went up to the school to pick them up and if I’m honest I had missed them so much, but surely that’s completly normal when they have been with you 24/7 for the last four and half years.

 

I was looking through the classroom window from a distance and I could see they were milk moniters and it was pretty cute watching them hand out the milk to all the other children brought a lump to my throat. I realised they don’t need us in the same way and never will from this week forward.

I have no doubt that I will get used to all this free time and maybe possibly enjoy it. I have already worked out that my working week will change, but Monday’s I am not working as a painter/decorator, which will allow me to work on my blog a bit more which will be great because at the moment I have to do most of it in the evenings.

 

The transition from a being on hand to do whatever the girls need to having free time is going to be a very slow transition and accepting that I will have me Time! I know a lot of people can’t wait for this moment, well I wasn’t! I was actually dreading it, but it’s here. Not hearing the incessant chattering and waffling about rubbish and just generally not taking a breath, it’s actually what makes your house a home.

My little twin girls are not so little anymore and it’s a very bittersweet moment that  their reliance on Mummy and Daddy has changed forever. Their needs from us will never be the same again.

So today we both not working,do we have plans absolutely. Wetherspoons for lunch. When your children are in school and you are both home together. What do get up to? Would love to know.