National Opt out of parenting day (Lighthearted)

[anitagreen]

My children have been wild all day long today and when they finally had a nap it got me thinking how nice it would be as a parent,
to be able to just opt out of being one for the day and doing whatever you wanted with a unlimited budget but ......
You only had one day a year to opt out. What would you spend your day doing?
Obviously I know this is stupidly unrealistic would never ever happen and I'm even weird for considering it but my god how nice does that sound

Do the kids go somewhere else? I want to sit in my pjs all day. I'd have a long sleep in, a bubble bath and then sit in my pjs, in bed, and watch Netflix in bed and just binge watch crap.
OR OR OR
I would go shopping. For me. Without a toddler getting bored and kicking off. I would go have lunch somewhere, with wine and take my book and enjoy the peace

@CheesecakeAddict yes forgot to say the kids are cared for elsewhere! Yours sounds like heaven I can't remember the last time I went shopping for myself without buying stuff for them, leaving the shopping and going home again or just simply dealing with a tantrum in the shops. I miss those days sooo much

I did that on my 40th birthday: it was a working day so our usual childcare was in place, and DH and I both took the day off work and went into London. I had planned the day out in detail, and it was fab

I told my hairdresser (who has no kids) how amazing it was, and that we did exactly what we wanted to all day. He paused a minute then told me that was what he did every (non-working) day. He was bemused, I was deflated.

@nordicwannabe

that is lovely I'd love to do that I remember telling my brother how I miss having time to myself and he said but you do get time when they go to bed? People with no kids don't really get it as much do they lol

I had this a little bit last year when mine went on holiday with their dad. The first few days I had a mad cleaning frenzy because I thought I had to fill the day. Second week I did all the stuff i don’t do when they’re here, mostly Boring stuff like getting to work early, staying late, eating dinner in front of the TV, having a few drinks in the afternoon.

Weird going to the supermarket and not picking up a few treats for them. I didn’t quite shake the ‘mum’ off but it was nice to put myself first for a change.