As a Child....

As a child I never said, "When I grow up I want to....."
Spend countless numbers of days at McDonalds watching children tumble around the playland in order to keep my sanity in tact on a rainy or blistery day.
Watch animated films over and over again until I can quote them almost word for word. "Frakincense, come in this is Myrrh. Do you read me? Molly is opening her first present. It's a....it's a...Mrs. Potato Head. I repeat, Mrs. Potato Head." "Way to go, I-da-ho!" "Oh no! I've gotta shave!" (as Mr. Potato Head pulls off his removable mustache).
Hear someone say, "Momma play. Momma play." Until I finally crawl down to the floor to play choo-choo for the hundredth time that day.
Be a morning person.
Wash 5 loads of laundry back to back and then tediously fold many tiny little outfits.
Go to Chuck-E-Cheese for every birthday.
Turn down the opportunity to go out in exchange for a night in with kids and a movie.
Change diaper after diaper after diaper after stinking diaper.
Wake up at 2am to hold someone's hair back while they vomit. Then lay towels down on the bed so that no one is sleeping directly on the vomit. Then spend the next day washing said vomit out of every blanket in the house.
Spend a great deal of my free time on beautiful days climbing ladders and going down twisting slides.
Read about cows and cats and ducks and dogs and pigs and hor-hees until I want to scream.
Buy cheese sticks by the bulk.
Eat dinner at a nice restaurant with an escapee constantly trying to climb out of his chair while screaming "Give me go! Give me go!" as I try to wrestle him back in his harness.
Explain to my daughter that I am sorry other people can be so mean, and helplessly watch her try to deal with the feelings that result from that.
Spend an entire day picking up toys only to turn around and find myself tripping over them again.
Spend what little extra money I have investing in choo-choos and baby doll clothes.
Work, work, work, and still never really get ahead.
Try to remember everything I learned about fractions so that I could help someone else learn them.
Spend $90 having my car detailed only to watch someone projectile vomit all over the back seat only a week later.
Watch little girls have a dance off contest weekly.
Eat plastic fruits and fries, and then wash it all down with the imaginary contents of a little plastic coffee cup.
Play "Where's the bug?" for 30 minutes straight almost daily.
Vacuum cheese-its and cereal from the carpet on a daily basis.
Repeatedly apologize to passengers for all of the toys and jackets and trash they have to move before I can listen to the crunch of the crackers as they sit down in my car.
Leap at the opportunity to run to the grocery store for my grandmother if I can only leave my children at her house for the duration of the trip.
But all that being said.....If I had it to do all over again.....I wouldn't change a thing.