Remembering “Life Before”

(Remembering life before kids, bills and gray (or no hair…)

Do you remember when times were simpler?

* Like the days before working 12-16 hour shifts? Or only working 4-5 days/week?

* Before 15-minute/child/day reading logs and 30-minute/child/day math fact practice?

* Before nightmare tenants and three mortgages?

* Do you remember when we used to set our heat at 70 degrees during the winter — when we were WARM and still paid less than $100 per month?

* Do you remember what it was like before gas and milk were each $4 per gallon?

* Before banks collapsed and 9/10 houses ended up in foreclosure?

* Do you remember when there weren’t bags under our eyes, gray strands in our hair or rolls around our mid-sections?

* Do you remember when you had hair?

* Or how about back when we watched movies and actually stayed awake? Or played card games like Phase 10 till all hours of the morning?

* Do you remember what it was like before 2-year-olds knew how to say the word “LOSER”…let alone, use it in the correct context when expressing their frustration towards their parents?

* Do you remember when school lunches cost $1.15 — rather than $2.25? And when McDonald’s hamburgers were .29?

* Or when October 31st was called Halloween – -and not the Fall Festival? When the Halloween parade was just that…rather than a “Book Character Parade?”

* Do you remember when it seemed hard to get out the door with one child – – as compared to 4 3/4?

* Or when we didn’t take up an entire pew at church?

*Do you remember what it was like to drive a car with a whole bumper and 2 headlights?

*Or when I used to like making dinner and kept up with the laundry? (ok – -so that NEVER happened…)

DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE WHEN WE DANCED?