I woke up this Sunday and the house was dead silent. I had time to lay in bed until 9:30 AM or so. I went downstairs, ground my coffee beans, made a pour-over for myself with some toast.
I wouldn’t have it any other way. There’s nothing better than having this time alone to just sit and think. On weekdays, I can come home from work and actually have time to decompress and do nothing. I have time for reading and hobbies.
I thought I’d take a moment and count my blessings for being childfree.
I’m having a similar peaceful Sunday morning.
I have young nieces and nephews that I visit every now and then. There is no morning decompression allowed when I visit. Not even a minute on my phone to check the day’s events. As soon as I’m awake they’re on me like crows. They’ve been told not to wake visitors, so instead they hover over me and wait and watch my eyelids while I feign sleep. It’s a literal battle of wills that can go on for over an hour until one of us caves in.
I can’t wait to give them shit for it when they get older.
I once described my perfect morning to a colleague, in much the same way you describe your Sunday morning. He started laughing and said that will be gone with kids. I told him that was one of the many reason I did not want kids, and he looked genuinely perplexed that was even a possibility. His main reason for wanting kids (at least what I could come up with at the time) was the joyous thought of being able to teach someone a lot of cool stuff. The fact that he could achieve that without kids (i.e. volunteering teaching kids programming, electronics or whatever) didn’t seem to have dawned on him either. I haven’t spoken with him for some time, and I imagine he has gotten a kid with his wife by now. I hope for his sake that the kid(s) will be interested in what he has to teach, because if he did not have any other reasons for wanting them, he’s in for a disappointing couple of decades…
By the way, I’m sad this community is not more active. Are there any similar communities on Lemmy dedicated to a childfree lifestyle that goes under some name I don’t know?