20 Things I Did Before I Had Children (Without Giving Them a Second Thought)
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By Jenna McCarthy
1. Swear like a sailor
2. Look longingly at babies
3. Listen to music by relative adults who don’t wear pigtails (except Gwen Stefani, who somehow can get away with it) and swear like sailors
4. Go to the bathroom alone (oh, the luxury of it!)
5. Wear dry-clean-only pants
6. Make my bed
7. Not eat soggy, dinosaur-shaped, processed chicken scraps
8. Stay up past midnight (to have fun, not wipe a tiny, sweaty brow or chase monsters out of the closet)
9. Have sex in the morning
10. Have sex, period
11. Talk on the phone for five uninterrupted minutes
12. Judge other mothers
13. Read books without pictures
14. Have nice-looking nails
15. Go on spontaneous road-trips
16. Have all the answers
17. Spend less than four hours a day in the kitchen
18. Sleep
19. Think I wanted six kids (seriously)
20. Laugh a whole lot less
What’s your “used to do?” Come on, you know you’ve got a few.Leave your answers in the comments below.
Great backyard summer treat for the kids. Frozen fruit pops on a stick. 
Comment by Candice on Dec 04 2008 10:08:23:
You know what I miss doing..all by myself??
Go shopping!! I mean it seems really simple,but having a little one hide under the clothes rack…and me going insane because I can’t find her?? Ugh!!!
The day I can go shopping on my own will be a very happy day!!
Comment by CanCan (Mom Most Traveled) on Dec 05 2008 04:41:50:
I used to sleep late,
exercise/ run in 5K’s,
read books (yes, miss that one a lot!),
think of myself first,
not eat standing up,
know nothing about cloth diapers, or even diapers,
think it would be “fun” to live on a farm,
think I would be able to kind of “create” my child’s personality.
I didn’t have a clue!