Let loose!!

I'm off out this evening, how very exciting!! It actually is, I haven't been out for just over a month, my social life is taking off again, now my daughter is 2. I'm very lucky that my other half doesn't really do the whole piss up scene so I get to go out with my friends more often than some.
I have to say, I find it most annoying when people don't seem to realise that having a child changes your whole life, especially the social side of your life. I'm pretty hard arse when it comes to things like this, I truly believe if you can find the time to make a child in the first place then you have the time to take care of the baby when its born.
I was 20 when I fell pregnant and my mother was invaluable when I first had her, she came round every day for a couple of weeks. But when it came to doing the practical side of parenting it was me and my other half and that was it. We had the sleepless nights and the milky sick all over our clothes all the time. No one came along and took her so I could go out with my friends. My social life all but disappeared when I had Vivi and I'm finally getting to claim a bit of it back. Its a big deal for me to go out for a night out, I don't plan on getting rat arsed, I just want to enjoy not being a mother for a while.
I remember sitting in a doctors surgery with Vivi when she was about 5 months old and there was a mother and her teenage daughter. The daughter must have been about 15 at most, she looked at Vivi and said how cute she was and if she had a baby then she would just leave her with her Mum and be out all the time like she is now. Her Mother cut her a look and basically told her to piss off! I just think its funny, peoples perception on having kids, even I couldn't comprehend how difficult having a baby is. Its the most challenging thing I've ever done. But I will do it again hopefully in the future :)
Anyway, I'm off to preen myself into some sort of acceptable state :) I have a new haircut, done by a fantastic friend of mine who is also a mummy, something else I have to thank having Vivi for, I wouldn't have met half the lovely friends I'm blessed with if it weren't for having a daughter. Having children is only one thing we have in common, it was nice to meet other mothers with similar interests, before having a baby I thought as soon as you became a mother you had to become boring, uninteresting and just friendless but your life doesn't completely stop - it just takes a while to reclaim it!!