I'm a Mummy, Get Me Out Of Here!

Today I have really wanted a night out, I have felt this way for a long time now and it isn't going away!
 I absolutely adore my children, nothing will ever change there but sometimes every Mummy & Daddy needs time away to recoup and find themselves again.
I am starting a new job soon and I am really desperate for sometime just me and my hubby before I start as I know how much less we are going to be seeing of each other in a few weeks time.
To just be us and not Mummy & Daddy for a night, at the minute this seems all to impossible. Tonight my hubby is out with his little sister at a comedy night for his birthday and this weekend we are crazy busy again, I would settle for a coffee out somewhere just half a hour from the madness of the day. But so far this hasn't happened.
I think tomorrow I will pull in the big guns and ask someone to have the girls for an hour so we can enjoy a coffee without worrying about the girls, or is it time to pick them up from various childcare settings.

Time for yourselves and time as a couple is so vital when parenting as you are giving your whole self each and every day to a little beautiful person who is so demanding of your time and attention that everything else is just blurred into the background. I love my little family with all my heart, and sometimes we forget as parents that in order to love someone else we need to love ourselves first. If we are feeling low or lacking in self confidence, (I am feeling this a lot lately) then our children and people around us pick up on it and it affects them.

I am not claiming to be on top of my game every day, far from it but I think sometimes I feel so much more refreshed when I have had a little time away. It doesn't even have to be a full day, just a couple of hours and I am ready to start over with my day or my thoughts. In a few weeks our lives are going to be turned upside down, and the pace of our usual laid back lifestyle will be completely changed.

I am looking forward to savouring these last lazy few weeks with my family, and hopefully a coffee or two with my hubby in peace.