Comments on: My List of Sacrifices and Some Thoughts on Floor Lamps https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Amy ~ Eat. Live. Laugh. Shop. https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1450 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:17:45 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1450 All so true. Both my kids are now in school until 3 every day. Everything changes. Well, not everything, but so much changes. I’m not saying I have floor lamps or spontaneous romance, but want you to know there is a dim light at the end of the tunnel!

]]> By: KLZ https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1449 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:16:56 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1449 I’m pretty sure I would murder someone for a sick day. If I had the energy to do so. And a place to stash a body.

]]> By: Kristy https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1448 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:29:43 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1448 This was great! I totally relate! Life is opening up more for us as our child gets older (We have brought our coffee table back! We have a place to put our drinks!). But, there are still things to look forward to. Like, sleeping (a little?) later? And, watching more PG and PG-13 movies at will?

]]> By: Kimberly https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1447 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:22:19 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1447 Well we had a floor lamp and it survived the wrath of my toddler thus far…unforch after a night of too much drinking and a well thought out dodge by a blue rubber ball knocked me off kilter and into the lamp and it broke. Yup it’s not the kids you need to be afraid of, it’s drunken adults…and blue balls…of destruction

]]> By: Kelli https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1446 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:54:02 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1446 I can totally relate to this! Especially the floor lamp…which we did have at one time but after it was knocked over about 20 times it finally gave up and broke into a couple hundred pieces!

]]> By: Sherri @ Old Tweener https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1445 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:43:27 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1445 Your list is great! I SO agree about the vacations part, even with older kids. Just last week I flew for work and kept thinking about how horribly my husband would raise the 12 year-old girl without me when the plane crashed. The boy? He’d be fine.

Haven’t had a floor lamp since the 80’s. Yeah, before kids.

]]> By: gigi https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1444 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:32:02 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1444 I need so much time, that I have to cram the magazine reading into 10 minutes I sit in the car waiting for my kids’ school dismissal.

pathetic!

]]> By: liz https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1443 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:58:11 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1443 Once Kate learns to spell, that last form of communication is out the window.

I don’t know how we’ll soldier on once that day comes…

]]> By: Kristin https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1442 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:40:32 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1442 I think you are confused!! Your house is like a magazine, even if there are toys around and it lacks floor lamps…it’s beautiful and you could practically be a designer.

I don’t think I would have a list of things I don’t have/do because of my kids because I will have that in about 15 years and then I’ll be an empty nester and wish for my children to be little again…live in the moment and enjoy 🙂

]]> By: Amber https://missystevenswrites.com/my-list-of-sacrifices-and-some-thoughts-on-floor-lamps#comment-1441 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:43:40 +0000 http://www.wonderfriend.com/?p=2181#comment-1441 If you came to my house you would see absolutely NO decorative touches. Our couches are worn (or well loved) and perfect for jumping. Our floors are vacuumed on a regular basis to get rid of the crumbs spread by chubby, beautiful fingers. There are books and toys piled everywhere and our walls, kitchen table, and bookshelves have been decorated by a certain little girl’s crayon.

Even though there are times that I want to add decorative touches, I remember that these days are short and soon the kids will be grown up enough to allow me furniture and other things that will not be ruined in a second.

I do like your list, though, and think I might steal it for my own fridge.

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